Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman (also by executive order) placed them under civil service, the jobs to which Ike's order will apply were held by "Schedule A men." In Washington bureaucratese, a "Schedule A man" is one who, while not of Cabinet or sub-Cabinet rank, has an important policy-making function. Unlike career civil servants, Schedule A officials may be hired & tired at their bosses' discretion...
...even these reasons, should they come to light, would be irrelevant to the principle involved: what is the Department's right to interfere in the French Club. It certainly performs no function that benefits the club. Speakers are not provided by the Department, nor are finances. The meeting place is provided, but it is not essential to the club; meetings could be held in the room of any member. But the club is beneficial to the Department in that it interests students in the subject. Only the Department benefits from the association. Frederick Mushenheim...
...Society will, however, carry on its program unofficially. "Our most important function now is to undertake a complete rethinking of the socialist position in relation to the economic, political, and social realities of the present-day American scene," said Langston...
...South's gaunt era of Reconstruction after the Civil War is there a U.S. parallel to what Rhee and his people are up against. The economy is shot to pieces. Some 75% of all mines and textile factories have suffered severe damage. Those industries which can function lack parts for maintenance and equipment for repair. The draft has absorbed much of the country's youth, but there are still thousands of unemployed. Resourceful businessmen struggle with makeshift merchandise: they offer for sale cooking utensils fashioned from the aluminum of wrecked planes, buckets beaten out of old oleomargarine cans...
...Well, what is the chief function of a barber? I mean aside from cutting hair...