Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dollar, mark and yen." Other currencies would quickly fall into line behind the big three. The IMF could monitor national economic activity and recommend when currency values should be increased or decreased and by how much. Last April the IMF set up a "surveillance system" that could perform this function. Though some American officials have opposed such an idea because it would limit national economic independence, the U.S. should strongly support it as a major step toward greater stability in exchange rates...
Supervisor Ted Gertel has an equally illustrious background in Nautilus technique. In addition to working out at a number of Nautilus clubs, he took a supervised reading course in biology entitled "The Physiology of Exercise and Sports Medicine," and a course on "Regulation of Muscle Function" at Harvard Medical School...
...believes that about 90% of the agents listed in Dirty Work have been publicly named before or are known to U.S. adversaries. But the other 10% were secret. "They'll be in danger," says one CIA official, who believes that the book may damage the agency's ability to function effectively overseas: "The friendly liaison services are nervous, the agents are falling off, and we're powerless to stop Agee." Dirty work, all around...
...inherent campiness that's fun, and there is a briskness of pace and enough mild wit to hold one's attention. By the end one is rather surprised at how high the pile of corpses is, which means that sufficient style was present to serve its traditional function in the puzzle mystery - distract us from the gore that of necessity lies at the center of this form. Which is a way of saying that they must have been doing something right here. Too bad they couldn't have gone just a little bit further - from the entertaining...
Jewish comedians, he argues, are "overwhelmingly anxious" people who turn most of their humor on themselves. Though self-deprecation is traditional in Jewish humor, says Janus, it has a special function in America: it serves as "ritual exorcism" for conflicts shared with Jewish audiences, and it assures Gentile audiences that Jewish humor is not threatening...