Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Often overlooked are the large number of opportunities in connection with the finance function within manufacturing, retailing, and other nonfinancial concerns. While the "financial" jobs in these various financial and nonfinancial institutions and functions are quite varied in nature, finance is business. Although work in finance does require some special knowledge and skills, the executive in finance is continually concerned with the various aspects of decision-making and administration common to all business, so in a real sense, training for business is training for finance...
...Marketplace," where Americans can freely buy and sell shares in our great corporations at prices openly arrived at in dealings with other investors. As long as it can meet the needs of investors for such a market its important place in our economy is secure. But beyond this primary function it has taken on a broader task--the encouragement of wider public ownership of our country's economic might--not public ownership through government but through individual investment in common stock by millions more financially able Americans...
...their opponents argue that libraries have always been both reading and study hall; that their main function is to provide space for efficient study combined with ready access to reference material. Lamont, they argue--with its excellent "study nooks"--was obviously constructed for just this purpose...
...many of the world's underdeveloped areas--countries which the Soviet Union is so strenuously cultivating. These underdeveloped areas, in search of higher living standards, have come to regard atomic energy as their best hope for producing the quantities of power needed for large-scale industrial development. The main function of the proposed international agency would be providing atomic training and research facilities and, above all, fissionable materials for use in experimental nuclear reactors. In short, the plan would enable underdeveloped countries to take their first halting steps toward industrial application of atomic energy. Whatever doubts the Russians had about...
...more important consideration, the generals do not fulfill their proper function for full-time concentrators in their present position. Coming before students have gained the added historical insight that thesis work gives in the senior year, the examinations now function principally to help weed out weak honors candidates. This is questionable justification when compared to President Lowell's envisaged purpose of the general examination: to tie together the student's whole course of study...