Word: functional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that New York's complex ills could only be cured if the metropolis were razed and rebuilt. Its breakdown this fall was one of spirit and nerve, a malaise that affected the tacit assumptions of trust and interdependence without which no organism so vast and disparate can possibly function. In what most responsible citizens concede to be one of the ugliest situations in memory, strikes and the threat of strikes pitted not only union against employer-the city-but, worse, black against white, Jew against Gentile, middle class against poor...
...left-handedness or has learned to speak, so much the better. In such a case, the question of removing the dominant side does not arise. Says Hendrick: "The brain is very malleable in infants and hasn't established any habits, so there is a better chance of the function of the damaged areas being taken over by the undamaged areas. For instance, early damage might not affect normal speech development. But a child having a stroke later, say at six or seven, is in big trouble...
Close associates of the late Robert F. Kennedy '48 will staff the Memorial initially. It is designed to be a "living memorial" to Kennedy and will adapt to new situations and function effectively over a long period of time...
Kraft is willing to admit that he has feelings on violence, but he is so scared that they are out of touch with those of Middle America that he dare not show them on paper. To Kraft, the legitimacy of reporting has become a function of the opinions of Middle America. Showing your feelings is all right, he seems to say, so long as those feelings are consensus feelings...
...Cornell, Holley studied both the genetic code and its function in building proteins by analyzing "transfer RNA," a form of ribonucleic acid. RNA collects amino acids floating in the cell and, like a tug towing a barge, pulls them to an assembly site where, in the sequence dictated by the master DNA molecule, they are combined into the appropriate protein. Holley worked out the complete structure of a transfer RNA molecule, demonstrating how it attaches to a particular amino acid and brings it to the growing protein chain at the proper time and place...