Word: functional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CRIMSON article of Saturday, March 9, 1968, (concerning tutoring), contains a number of inaccuracies. The decision to transfer the function of tutoring qua tutoring to the volunteer pool came as a result of a long series of discussions about tutoring, starting with the PBH retreat and the intensive re-evaluation of programs currently going on in the House. The decision came in light of a number of new programs which will be started next year. The Cambridge Advancement Tutorial is one of these...
...leftward in a "consensus" that would provide "practical alternatives to the present Administration" in both policies and a candidate. The 25 Republican Governors (now 26) were to be the spearhead of the movement, and Rockefeller soon settled on Romney as its beneficiary. Rockefeller believed himself incapable of filling that function...
...I.R.C.'s activities. Insisting that the I.R.C., despite its government ties, operates with a virtually free hand, Villiers says that "such independence is very dear to us. It means that industrialists can come by and consult with us freely." He adds diplomatically: "As we look at it, our function is to help industrialists help themselves...
While that function can involve a variety of approaches, Villiers sees mergers between the country's many "fractionated companies" as the best way to shore up British industry. Demonstrating the importance it attaches to that mission, Wilson's government has set Villiers' salary at $48,000 a year, which makes him better paid than any of the country's Cabinet ministers-including Wilson himself...
...Mother. Whatever else he does, though, the agent can rarely avoid for long his original function: the care and occasionally the feeding of his authors, who, like infant children, are in constant need of mothering. Few authors can have that need fulfilled as thoroughly as Novelist Budd Schulberg (What Makes Sammy Run?), whose agent really is his mother, Ad Schulberg, a 37-year veteran of the business. But few agents serve as a mother substitute as successfully as Candida Donadio, an exceedingly shy woman who abhors publicity and rarely allows herself to be photographed. Such clients as Joseph Heller (Catch...