Word: performance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...principal in this school is Lucas of the University of Chicago. Says he: "The real amount of goods and services available cannot be manipulated effectively by short-term market interferences. Such policies are based on the premise that we, the Government, can make people work harder, invest more or perform some other desired objective. But people are skeptical, so such policies do not work any more. The public has also lost confidence in the prospect of a stable policy in the future, because monetary trends have been jumping all over the place." Increases in the money supply, he asserts, merely...
Armistead would not comment on the possibility of an eminent domain takeover of the lot, which Cambridge could only perform if it planned to use the land for a public purpose...
Collegium Musicum: 60 mixed voices. They perform often in local churches and Sanders Theater, with a repertoire from large choral works to unaccompanied Renaissance pieces...
...their attempts to correct the rapidly developing crisis that occurred when an electricity-generator turbine tripped, or shut itself down. Those actions, says the report, turned what should have been a relatively minor glitch into a potential disaster. Instead of letting the reactor's emergency core cooling system perform its safety functions, the operators paid "undue attention" to keeping the coolant from overfilling the reactor and refused to believe instruments indicating that the plant's fuel core was getting perilously...
...when Herb Williams, 21, a forward from Ohio State, slammed home a fearsome dunk against Yugoslavia and shattered the backboard in the process. After a moment of startled silence, the Soviet crowd roared with laughter and cheers, and one straight-faced official quipped: "Please ask your player not to perform that play any more than five times-we only have six more backboards...