Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clancy says the time and expense is justified because with so many people, "if the sound system does not function, nothing else...
Sailboarders, surfers and sailors know the sea can be dangerous, and yet they often sacrifice safety for style. After all, a bulky life preserver would ruin the look of a hang ten. In a new product called Aqua Buoy, which hides a flotation device in a wristband, function combines with form...
...dangerous long-term side effects of its own, if the problems of keeping it from children are insurmountable, these are all important and possibly determinative considerations. But society's ability to weigh these factors is hobbled by its inability to accept the obvious truth: like alcohol's, marijuana's function as a pleasure drug is a plus, not a minus in the calculation...
...Senate version is likely to prevail. Nevertheless, it gives to the military a far greater role than it wanted in drug interdiction. The Pentagon, eager to avoid the nasty work altogether, yielded to pressure . from the White House to accept it. One objection: law enforcement is traditionally a civilian function in a democracy. The military also contends that the costs would be high, the peripheral training from the new duties would not be relevant to preparing for war, and the Air Force does not have the right aircraft for the task. Still, Pentagon Spokesman Dan Howard concedes: "We're prepared...
More fundamentally, the debate is over the role of law in upholding the nation's moral fabric. One function of the law is to express society's moral disapproval of or repugnance to an activity. Although that may sometimes conflict with personal freedom or even pragmatic considerations, it is still a principle that helps order American society, as it does every civilization...