Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Investigation, the Secret Service, and other executive personnel, in violation or disregard of the constitutional rights of citizens, by directing or authorizing such agencies or personnel to conduct or continue electronic surveillance or other investigations for purposes unrelated to national security, the enforcement of laws, or any other lawful function of his office; he did direct, authorize, or permit the use of information obtained thereby for purposes unrelated to national security, the enforcement of laws, or any other lawful function of his office; and he did direct the concealment of certain records made by the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
STRATFORD, Conn.--One of the tasks of the theater is to reassess the works of our playwrights a decade or two after their original productions. As part of its 20th season, the American Shakespeare Theater is fulfilling this function by turning for the first time in its history to a play by a living American dramatist...
...more than dreams. But as peacemaker in the family, she cannot afford the emotional flights which characterize the male members of the family. That dynamic works in the play for the same reasons it has worked in generations of families. It seems clear that Miller intended to have her function that way, and it is not at all clear why Lewis plays her as a histrionic cheerleader. She is too high key, too insistent, and her forced optimism lacks all the finesse necessary to make it work...
...have done some research on the issue, particularly with reference to ABA standards relating to the defense function and the code of professional responsibility; according to those authorities an attorney is required to press all legally available points, his client's desires in the matters are paramount, his professional opinion, his own professional opinion of the merits of the point that is raised is irrelevant, and the only test is, indeed, even if the rule that is argued for is "unwarranted under existing law" as long as it is supportable by a good faith argument the attorney is required...
...doctors were frustrated for years by the fact that standard doses of the highly toxic drug had no effect on osteogenic sarcoma cells, yet left patients suffering various unpleasant and even dangerous side effects-anemia, impaired liver and kidney function, mouth ulcers, nausea and hair loss...