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...GATT really necessary? Its primary function is to serve as a vehicle for the resolution of international trade disputes and to draft an accord which would appease the 109 contracting parties. The current round also seeks to formulate international rules governing trade in services, trade-related investment measures and trade-related intellectual property rights...
Brown, the former governor of California and chair of state's Democratic party, said "the function of [political] parties is to launder dirty money" that candidates would otherwise be unwilling to accept from the corporate sector...
...while UHS's numerous resources and specialists now attract tens of thousands of student visit a year. Farnsworth's vision of easy access has yet to come to function...
Five researchers connected with Harvard have won Guggenheim Fellowship grants for a varsity of projects including an examination of the function of regulatory genes and a book on the assimilation of West Indian immigrants in New York City...
Lamour's English is heavily accented, and others in the cast can barely function in English. That doesn't matter: even in the French version, the actors do not speak. They just pantomime and lip-synch to a portentous voice- over narration that calls to mind Alexander Scourby somberly narrating some war documentary. This technique enabled the show to be imported intact, and will permit performances in Spanish in Mexico City and seven U.S. cities with large Hispanic populations...