Word: functionally
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...told that I will have to stay overnight, as the kind nurses and doctors work to normalize my kidney function and water and sodium levels...
...Regardless of the shape and face of the authority installed on June 30, it's a relative certainty that the violence of the past year is likely to continue. The Iraqi government being installed is, by definition, a lame duck, since its primary function is to replace itself by organizing elections to choose a legitimate government. And even before any of the political questions over the election process and the constitutional rights of the victors come into play, the factor determining whether or not the elections actually occur is the level of security in Iraq - in other words, regardless...
...course, they never actually did. After three months of research into libraries around the world, Koolhaas and Ramus concluded that the two chief challenges the building would have to address were the unpredictable future proliferation of new technologies that the library would need to encompass and the new social functions that it may have to serve. The solution was a library organized as a series of five internal enclosed "platforms," from basement to upper-level administrative areas, each to serve a function such as parking, offices and meeting space. Instead of being stacked neatly one atop another in a rectangle...
...gambling in college may be a function of risk-taking that occurs in youth, which many people outgrow,” says Labrie, one of four authors who analyzed data from a 2001 national study of college student gambling habits conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health. “It may have something to do with development of the brain—the superego, the part that makes decisions, grows a little more slowly...
Walk into the Harvard Club (say, in New York City) and just try to get a table without a jacket and tie. Or, as I myself did just a few weeks ago, attend a function at the Faculty Club in a t-shirt and jeans. The unnecessary formality and (for lack of a better word) self-importance oozes, but at least Harvard is cultured, civilized, distinguished—right...