Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Form follows function," architect Louis Sullivan once said, but in today's literature, function more often follows form...
...solving them can be difficult. City bureaucracy often has a life of its own, with each city agency performing its own particular function in its own particular way. An outsider trying to get anything done in a city government must clear a path through an administrative jungle simply to understand what is going...
...theory goes on), those Democratic victories are tainted because of gerrymandering by state legislatures, most of which are controlled by Democrats. Gerrymandering certainly happens. But gerrymandering hardly explains why the Democrats have a large majority in Congress. Constituency election systems inevitably exaggerate majorities; that is part of their function. (How many times did you hear that Ronald Reagan carried 49 of 50 states? Yet he got barely 29 out of 50 voters.) In fact, though, the Democratic majority is not all that exaggerated. In 1988 in elections for the House, Democrats got 53% of the votes...
...function of the standardized tests is to allow comparison of applicants with vastly different high school experiences. National tests such as the SAT and the Achievements allow colleges to create the coveted diverse student body, for without them colleges might not take seriously applicants from high schools without national reputations...
...puts both of them behind only Barbara Walters (more than $2 million) as the highest-paid women in TV news. Even Williams, coming from low-paying CNN, will ring up a respectable $500,000 or so annually at NBC. "We are watching a profound shift in the way networks function," says Marvin Kalb, the former CBS and NBC correspondent who now teaches at Harvard. "It is similar to what is happening in professional baseball or basketball. Journalists are exchangeable commodities; the highest bidder wins...