Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political crisis raised troubling questions about Ford and his hastily assembled staff, it may also have performed a costly but positive function in warning of those weaknesses. In a sense Jerry Ford had now experienced his own Bay of Pigs and may have discovered, at considerable cost, the wisdom of consulting more widely and assessing his future major moves more carefully. In dealing with Nixon, Ford could perhaps have tried harder to get a greater concession of wrongdoing. But there is little likelihood that Nixon could ever bring himself to admit full guilt, though that guilt has been adequately documented...
With Mr. Nixon irrevocably pardoned, the moral basis for pursuing his co-conspirators is undermined, and the cases themselves are jeopardized. The Executive Branch has rendered the Judicial Branch incapable of performing its proper function under the law. So it remains for Congress to overrule the President, reopen the impeachment probe and thus resolve the question of Richard Nixon's culpability...
...towering sanctuary of a traditional Christian cathedral. Indeed, the Mormon temple is not built for regular worship (that purpose is served by thousands of local "ward" meetinghouses) but for "temple work"-the performances of various church duties and doctrinal study. To the outsider, its rooms seem to serve function rather than majesty...
Widespread arrests of Selassie's former aides have left the Emperor friendless as well as powerless. His official function reduced to ritual approval of the military's reforms, Ethiopia's "King of Kings" has little to do but attend daily services of the Coptic Church, visit his aging pride of lions in cages on the palace grounds, and walk his pet Chihuahua...
...short, the Burkitt team says, the physiological function of cereal fiber has been largely ignored because the fiber supplies no calories and has scarcely any nutritional value. Now, if the scientists' findings are confirmed, the time has come to rely not on commercial chemical laxatives but on nature's own brands -root vegetables, unpolished rice and such other unprocessed cereals as wheat, corn, barley and oats-to put fiber back into the diet of modern...