Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...symphony operates two youth orchestras, drawn from surrounding communities, which also function as farm clubs for new players: 17 members of the 86-man orchestra learned their trade in the youth symphonies...
...entire conception of the part of Sergeant Baker. The sergeant, played by Frank Aletter, is a little too delicate for the crude lines he is given, but the main trouble is that in the Army sergeants simply do not assault colonels, not even verbally. The sergeant's function to provide friction--thus making the colonel's refusal to abandon the case seem more heroic--would be better fulfilled by a quiet, grumbling misunderstanding than by his present direct attack on the colonel. Allyn McLerie's performance as the colonel's (female) secretary is generally competent, but somehow their relationship does...
...most American students the European system would not function well because there is not "enough parental pressure for hard work," he said, and also pointed out that only 15 percent of the Europeans stay in school after the age of 16 compared to 75 percent...
...program will function primarily in the School's Department of Nutrition and will be under the direction of Dr. Frederick J. Stare, the Department's head. "One of our main problems of present-day scientific investigation," said Dean Snyder, "is that most of our research funds are awarded on an annual basis. This makes it very difficult to develop long-range programs or to keep scientists of high ability on our staff...
...stand still," says G.M. Chairman Sloan, now 80, "you go behind." Competition demands efficiency, and the whole efficient, smooth-running corporation could soon turn sour, as the Allison Division did, if it were forced to slow down to an artificial pace. Profits, in a modern corporation, have a function beyond providing earned surplus and dividends (and taxes). Under G.M.'s cost-accounting system, they are the key indicator of worth of divisional management, worth of product, personnel policy and planning...