Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doubt stronger supervision is needed to guard against illegal CIA activities. But in the real world, in which other nations engage in espionage and "dirty tricks," the U.S. cannot do without an agency more or less like the CIA, and such an agency must, up to a considerable point, function in secret...
...remains to be determined. What is known is that it can be corrected in some cases with drugs known as MAO inhibitors, which affect brain chemistry, not the progress of the People's Revolution in China. Two weeks after he started taking MAO inhibitors, Knauth was able to function again. He took up his old editorial projects, wrote this book and became a crusader for the National Mental Health Association...
...dormancy of Jewish student support for Israel is less a function of hostility towards Israel than it is of general students apathy to widely discussed Jewish students may now he less outspoken about their support of Israel, but then his students are outspoken in their support about anything these days. This stands in contrast to the immediate and widespread outpouring of student support for Israel during and after...
...financial report on the conference that a three-member board of auditors prepared last month calls the expenditures "improper management of funds" and "a tendency to distribute benefits...by calling it a conference-related function," but people who work in the Model U.N.'s like to refer to them as "errors of judgment...
...acquisitions; by witless journalists whose only peg for discussing art is its price; by collectors who grub for investment; and by the horde of dealers, ranging from the little sharks to the dignified auction-room gents with faces like silver teapots, who have striven to give art the primary function of bullion. The present epidemic of art theft is ultimately their responsibility. In one day last week, in one Italian district-the Abruzzi-thieves made off with a 12th century Madonna and Child, a 13th century reclining Madonna and a 14th century silver reliquary attributed to Giacomo di Sulmona...