Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Since the primary function of the AlumniAssociation is the maintenance and facilitation ofcommunication with alumni about a wide variety ofsubjects relating to the University, a logicalconclusion is that among the things we mightcommunicate would be Harvard finances and fiscalpolicy, including, perhaps, fundraising," saysEgan.MARSHALL I. GOLDMAN, associate director ofthe Russian Research Center, who says thatacademics must draw potential donors to researchprograms through such methods as visitingcommittee appointments...
Second, billions of dollars (not to mention vast reservoirs of human ingenuity) can be wasted turning disfavored forms of income into favored forms. The essential function of the tax-shelter industry was converting ordinary income into capital gains, before the gains break was eliminated in the 1986 tax reform...
Initially, a crack addict can continue to function at work. But that first euphoric kick can be followed by depression and paranoia, which the user suppresses by getting high again. So begins a cycle of compulsive binging known as "chasing the high." Five-dollar "nickels" give way to $40 "doves." Soon crack addicts are spending $200 and more every night...
...really can't function as a celebrity," she says, sitting at her drafting table, where she likes to sketch and talk at the same time. "Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect, I'm an artist, I make things. I just love the fact that I can make a work and put it out there and walk away from it and then look at it like everyone else...
...when you're listening to that Pink Floyd album you last played when you were stoned and accidentally dropped on the floor in trying to flip it over. (If you couldn't have experiences like this, what would be the point in getting stoned and making spastic attempts to function normally...