Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Matt defends the Wanderer by complaining that "the teaching function of many bishops is not being exercised. As long as there continues to be silence on the issues, an informed layman-or journalist-can make his own judgments. After the tremendous leakage in active church membership, those who are left are more and more realizing that the faith is up for grabs and they have to defend...
...Free Woman makes its point with bitter force: only a return to the lulling assurances of traditional female roles will allow a woman to function at all. "Every woman is replaceable!" shouts Elisabeth's husband, and the movie is careful to show how and why this has come to be so. On occasion it is too eager about its cataloguing of injustices and outrages. A brief moment when Elisabeth rejects a job as an apprentice programmer by saying "Feeding computers? I've done enough feeding in my life," is stronger, for example, than a long scene...
...week turned back one of the most serious of these?a suit to compel Florida newspapers to give equal space to political candidates who have been criticized in print. By a vote of 9 to 0, the court ruled the Florida statute unconstitutional because of "its intrusion into the function of editors." Decisions as to what is or is not published, the court said, cannot be dictated by Government. But other legal problems persist. This spring a committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors warned that press successes in Watergate would not diminish challenges by legislatures, law-enforcement officials...
...troubles. Until he overdramatized the situation, not many people took it too seriously. They wanted explanations, not a resignation. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in particular, was extremely friendly to Kissinger. The committee was perfectly willing to forget about the whole wiretap episode in the interest of letting Kissinger function as Secretary of State. But now that he has demanded another investigation of the affair, the committee has no choice but to comply. Its hearings will keep the issue before the public for weeks, and possibly months more...
Airport executives, pointing out that Dallas-Fort Worth's remoteness spares area residents the maddening air and noise pollution of most metropolitan airports, are confident that their colossus will eventually function like a clockwork doll. Meanwhile, more and more Texas travelers are turning to Love...