To perform this task well, they had to realise and accept the need to move their discs away from their intended goal before moving them closer.

ECONOMIST: Cognitive disenhancement

Cox was ill-suited to perform this task.

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It's hard to believe he can competently perform this task if his only experience in a similar situation ended in failure.

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He then set up the first of the societies that to this day perform the hugely complex task of collecting money from every pub, club and radio station which uses music, distributing it to those who created it.

ECONOMIST: He who pays the piper