Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford, Hartmann finds that his duties have no clear boundaries. "My role is best described by that door over there," he says, nodding toward the portal that leads from his sparsely furnished office, once occupied by Rose Mary Woods, to the Oval Office a few paces away. "My main function is to do what seems to the boss to be the most important thing to do next...
Because many modern problems (e.g., crowded parks) "are the side effects of success, not the fruit of failure," Wallenberg suggests that they are not really problems at all. He dismisses critics of the food and decor at McDonald's, for example, with Ihe assertion that "the function of the fast-food business ... is quite simple: Women's Liberation." That is, it frees Mom from shopping, cooking and washing up, so don't complain. In the same vein, "suburban sprawl is a pejorative phrase that describes perhaps the most comfortable mass residential living conditions in history...
...uninitiated, Crone and Harrison are merely the wild tales of a seemingly dark age, heroes without real form or function. But there will be others in the course of the next four years to take their places, and you will embrace them...
...Square's primary function is service, and the shops and shopkeepers have been serving most of the needs of all classes for a long time...
Moreover, says Medvedev, when about 40 medical, psychological and biochemical tests were run in 1972 on reputed centenarians in the U.S.S.R., a commission of gerontologists was surprised by the "paradoxical" finding that the function and metabolism of the oldsters were the same as those of people about 60 years old. Proven centenarians in the West exhibit a degeneration appropriate to their age, says Medvedev...