Word: performance
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...Rocks area of Sydney Cove, thronged with tourists buying opals and boomerangs, and an aesthetic and financial delight to the city fathers, was saved from destruction in the early 1970s only through the intervention of the Builders' Labourers Federation and its members' "green ban" refusal to perform demolition work. The old buildings of Woolloomooloo owe their existence to a similar -but depressingly rare-triumph of the popular will over developers' check books...
Carr said his decision to found the theater is unrelated to last spring's announcement that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences would take control of the Hasty Pudding's theater space. But it may provide a boon to the ART, which used to hold performances in the Hasty Pudding building and may perform in the new space...
Until next week, anyway. Despite her doubts, beating the waif who enchanted Barcelona and dazzled Atlanta represents a high degree of difficulty. Fu's jumping-bean antics have matured into an aquatic elegance that could raise this veteran above a crop of agile young rivals, some of whom perform the scary dives that were once her exclusive domain...
...next day the Q'ero perform a salutation at the U.N. General Assembly Hall, blowing on sacred conchs and flutes. Their prayers capture the essence of the summit's environmental theme: "I am he who greets and takes care/ Of this sweet and beautiful Mother Earth/ to which I will one day return." Their cosmology--which, among other things, holds animals, plants and rivers as the equals of humans--seems ill-suited to urban life. But they are more relaxed than the average New Yorker parachuting into Cuzco. They are completely unfazed when Turner high-fives them during a recess...
Parents must show a child how to perform the chore they want done (be clear, but don't elaborate too much) and give a reasonable deadline for the job. Then the parent should leave the area (unless a child is using a mower or similar tool for the first time). Do not supervise too closely--it is as nerve-racking for them as it would be for you if your boss hung out in your office...