Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provision giving Congress what amounts to a veto over any Pentagon decision to transfer or abolish a "major combatant function" is an "endorsement of duplication and standpattism...
...loan agreement-have yet to be ironed out. The Export-Import Bank will probably put up $15 million; the rest will most likely come from Mutual Security Agency coffers. Even the use to which the money will be put is not certain, but basically the loan's function will be to provide a dollar prop for Chile's sagging peso, hard hit by a world slump in copper prices. Last week the peso was so shaky (off from 493 to the dollar to 780 at the free-trade rate since April, 1956) that Chileans were forced to stop...
This important alumni function figures in virtually every alumni affair as a low pressure undercurrent. McCord set the pace for the Program, the Alumni Association, and the Associated Harvard Clubs with this bit of whimsy, read at the New York Harvard's Day Program...
...cast away by the Bounty mutineers, some of his lifeboat companions went weeks with no bowel movement, had no lasting ill effects. For a trip to the moon, the Air Force thinks it now has an airtight zipper-type fastening for pressure suits that will enable the pilot to function like a duck hunter opening the flap on his long-Johns; the fecal matter will go into plastic bags, be deodorized and stowed unobtrusively...
...share a common danger. As administrator of the program it is my job to limit crude-oil imports in the interests of national security. My efforts are not, should not, and cannot be devoted to protection of the markets and profits of any individual. Nor can this be the function of the Federal Government in this highly complex field of crude-oil imports...