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...Companies now say they want to identify their basic, core function and their core workers, and everything else can be done by peripheral workers, part-time people or subcontractors. Isn't this an extreme buyer's market for labor...
Schauer said yesterday that his initial statement would not focus on specific cases. "The general themes about what I'm going to talk about are related to which ways private universities are and are not like state universities and, because of their educational function are and are not like other public speech services," he said...
President Clinton needs both to send an unambiguous message of support for NAFTA and to devise an effective strategy for sending it through Congress. He must move quickly to get all of the major players on board. Speed is a function of power. The longer it takes to send a pact through Congress, the higher the odds that the pact will be captured and eviscerated by vested interests...
Resident tutors serve, to some degree, to help students in their area of expertise. Unfortunately, even with hordes of tutors in the Houses, on house, will have a tutor for every student's academic discipline. In practice, this function is not given a tremendously high priority, since plenty of tutors get posts even through there is little or no call for their academic expertise for example, Winthrop House has two Fine Arts tutors, but no tutors in Economics, Math, or Physics...
...owes much to Conrad in tone. Black Dogs conjures forth the same malign essence as Heart of Darkness. The two novels generate the same suspense, as the readers churn through the pages to reveal the secret of the one incisive encounter. The black dogs of the title fulfill the function of Kurtz, revealing for an instant the black heart of mankind, the seed of savagery we all contain. Most of all, McEwan's work reflects the powerful, emotive, and yet strangely rambling, subdued prose of Heart of Darkness...