Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...readmission rate is up from 25% in 1960 to more than 65% today, which may indicate that too many have been released. As many as half of those discharged are now living alone, without the family support that psychiatrists think is essential for them to function. Says Talbott: "These poor patients are disorganized. They can't handle the bureaucracy. They just can't cope...
...first moments of parody of the informality of improvisational theater, we were being asked to watch ctors playing parts rather than the parts themselves. The parts became vehicles for the considerable abilities and egos of the artists: it was always "let's watch Corneila play this or that function." Hence we could see each character only at individual points without any sense of transition: this lead to my doubt at the end of the show. They did stop the scenes seeming repetitive, and offered us an emotionalism missing on the mainstage, and with their inimitable style this company achieved precisely...
...that the body itself produces, sending them into special sites of the brain and spinal cord to reduce pain. In this, says Tiger, "we may be on the way to finding a specific source for notions of personal wellbeing. Endorphins may not serve principally to reduce pain. Their major function may be to anesthetize the organism against responding too directly and forcefully to negative cognitive stimuli in the environment. They permit the animal to obscure the understanding that its situation is dire...
According to Bok, a university's "institutional goal" should not be "to reform society in specific ways." Rather, a university's special mission is the discovery and transmission of knowledge," which by itself serves a major social function...
...arouses. Yes, confronting the reality of the human condition does involve emotion (some even go so far to claim that this is what humanizes us, offers us a vision of what's truly meaningful and purposeful in life). Of course, emotion produces negative results too--but what is the function of education if not to combine reason and insight and moral awareness in the proctorship of human affairs? Education teaches us to distinguish a reasoned argument of artifice and greed from one of true merit...