Word: functional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's duty to act promptly was clear. So was his duty to act with enough force to handle any eventuality in the area. But with the fire damped, the U.S. policymakers saw their next job as extricating the troops from Lebanon, passing the fireman function over to a U.N. force...
...defense reorganization bill (TIME, April 14), and the Senate unanimously passed it, heavily rephrased but scarcely damaged in substance. By imposing more command unity on the sprawling defense establishment, the measure will do more than save money: it will put the Defense Department in better organizational trim to function swiftly and effectively in case of big or little war. Main provisions...
...Beadle was not wasted. Since becoming chief of Caltech's biologists, he has revealed unexpected talents, including fund raising and speechmaking. His colleagues agree that his greatest talent is his way of encouraging and enhancing his division without visibly running it. He tries to function as a catalyst rather than as organizer, encouraging scientists from different disciplines to take a lively interest in each other's fields. Caltech's Division of Biology is equal to any in the world, and it operates in an atmosphere of amiability spiced with high intellectual excitement. These are Beadle...
...orders draw cries of protest from social scientists. They point to increasing arrest rates in the 14 heavily policed high-hazard slum areas, where social agencies thought they had made headway with a gentler approach toward juveniles. And they vehemently disapprove of Kennedy's decision on the proper function of the police department's Juvenile Aid Bureau...
...positive that his approach to juvenile delinquency was the proper one for a policeman-especially since the other approaches had not solved the problem. For New York's fisty finest, Commissioner Stephen Patrick Kennedy had a last basic police order: "To the extent that we perform our proper function, to that extent will the city be a better place to live...