Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After campaign machinations end tonight, it is to be hoped that constructive steps will be taken to prevent their recurrence in future elections. The HYRC would do well to take a more positive view of its educative function and replace its emphasis on internal politicking with a comparable concern for external political action...
...answer to a Soviet charge that the U.S. is guilty of subversion, Lodge asserted that America "will not remain silent and unprotesting." Organizations like the Voice of America and the Free Europe Committee fulfill their function, although they may not achieve the satellite liberation which they claim as their major goal, besides that of spreading information. Their real function is symbolic, the vocal reminder of an ideological disparity between Soviet rule and government by consent of the governed...
...President, in his reorganization plan, has made a two-fold request of his department heads. He asked first that they recommend career officials, whose policy-making function should exempt them from civil service protection, for appointment to a special Administrative category--Schedule C. Secondly, he inquired whether any department needed additional non-career officials. The second point, since it will not affect present civil service posts, seems worthwhile. The first part, although it may put a number of positions up for grabs, is unsound for strictly non-political reasons...
Kirkland's attack began to function more smoothly in the later stages of the contest, but Eliot goalie Landon Evarts managed to turn aside everything aimed...
Architect Harry Weese was in trouble. He had just arrived in Accra, the palm-fringed capital of West Africa's Gold Coast, and what had seemed a minor problem back in his Chicago office suddenly began growing like a tropical weed. Young (41), function-minded Architect Weese had been commissioned by the State Department, on a low budget of $300,000, to design an embassy and staff residences in hot, humid Accra, with the stipulation that his design must harmonize with the indigenous architectural tradition. But apart from thatch or corrugated iron and adobe, he found that there...