Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Obviously a facility of the size and magnitude of the new Dallas-Fort Worth Airport [June 24] requires a shakedown period before all systems function like clockwork. The determination of the citizens of Dallas and Fort Worth to build an airport unrivaled by any other will see that the problems of operation are solved and the airport of the future functions as planned...
...purpose of this argument is to justify given social arrangements. If you assume that the differences in races is a function of the differences in genes and that I.Q. is inherited, then you do not have to bother with improvement," Lewontin said...
...been using the issues of Playboy for his dissertation on magazine fiction and social change. Gay's work will consider the portrayal of women, blacks and social values in various magazines he has selected. The dissertation will include an analysis of time trends in these magazines as a function of readership...
...pack mentality. At the same time, the intense competitiveness of the newsmen?once they are fully aroused on a major story?occasionally makes them reach too far. New Republic's John Osborne, perhaps Washington's most judicious Nixon watcher, acknowledges that the press performed a "necessary and proper" function in getting at the basic facts of Watergate. "But," he adds, "I have to say at the same time that they're like dogs who have scented blood and are running the fox right down to the death...
...through the political process alone.* A diverse society needs all kinds of people-businessmen, professionals, artists-who are not chosen by the ballot. But while not formally elected, they all have their constituencies upon whose approval they ultimately depend. If the approval is withheld, they can hardly continue to function-and this is true of the press...