Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More-or Nothing? In 1951 the Supreme Court split 4 to 4 on a similar loyalty case. In the Peters case, the Government claimed the right to hire or fire anyone it pleases as a simple management function. Peters' counsel granted the Government's right to hire or fire, but declared: "The loyalty program is a process of trial and condemnation and is not an exercise of the managerial power...
Another of the myriad proposals for integration is that of the National Planning Association, which proposes that the Committee on the Economic Report assume the function of a fiscal policy maker. The plan is impractical, however, because this committee has always concerned itself with investigations of specific economic details. Traditional procedure would inevitably force questions of policy aside. By including members of several committees--finance, expenditures, and economy--in one Joint Committee, perhaps the dissimilarity of methods and practices might restrain the legislative instinct for the insignificant. Of all these proposals, Lipscomb's is most likely to unite the various...
Paul M. Zoll, associate in Medicine, said he has treated 27 cases of heart arrest, keeping those hearts going until they were able to function without assistance...
Highlighting this generally excellent cast are Tom Clancy, as Shem the Penman, Sarah Braverman, as Anna Livia, and Ed Chamberlain and Jac Rogers in a variety of roles. Ken Donahue was entirely enjoyable as everyman H.C.E., although as a result of the adaptation his major function throughout much of the play was to sleep atop the coffin. Joseph Mitchell lent delicacy at appropriate moments in several parts, especially during the dream dramas of H. C. Earwicker which occupied most of the second half of the production, and which were in many ways the most purely entertaining part of the evening...
...Association would operate under a constitution and function through an international council," he said...