Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Atomic Fair. Besides its main function as an exchange post of information, the Geneva Conference is an impressive "atomic fair"-the first that the world has seen. Many of the great, marble-crusted spaces in the Palace of Nations are crowded with the exhibits of the participating governments. They range from tiny instruments to large-scale models of reactors, all the weird and wonderful trappings of the atomic age. Most are eerily silent, with no whining of gears or throb of engines; atomic energy is a quiet business, and radioactivity is, of course, both invisible and silent...
...Duncan Ballantine hopes to make Robert play an even larger role in the partnership it has formed with Turkey. "The Turks," says he, "have done so much in the last 30 years. What they need, and what we need, is a center for the study of economic development. Our function should be more than merely education. We ought to be helping Turkey develop the ideas and the tools and the data of its economic growth...
...Services Administration, the Commerce Secretary in effect challenged the skeptical Congressmen to find a "single case ... of even the slightest impropriety." He argued that barring WOCs from policymaking posts would screen out the top men, for no top executive would make the sacrifice of entering Government service just to function as an exalted clerk...
...judiciary has neither control nor review power" over the passport function of the State Department...
Compared with other more complex organs, the bladder has a relatively simple structure and function. It is a remarkably elastic, muscular sac lying in the pelvic cavity. It receives urine from the kidneys through two slender tubes called ureters, expands to pint or even quart size as it stores urine, then contracts and discharges it from the body through a third tube called a urethra. People with no bladders, or with diseased bladders, usually live in great discomfort and with considerable danger of serious kidney infection...