Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...body of the cover story, and Reporter-Researcher Sarah Bedell grappled with the welter of statistics and details. Warner, having written a succession of gloomy political stories, was pleased to be discussing the good fortunes of the black middle class. "It's nice to see that society can function despite all the things that have gone wrong," he says. Contributing Editor Ivan Webster was assigned an accompanying story about the black underclass - an experience far less heartening. "It's a grim but necessary part of the larger story," he notes. "It amounts to a cry of alarm...
...GAIU, on the other hand, has been trying to prove that the job the mailers do is an adjunct to the function of the University Printing Office. They contend that the jobs done by the two groups coincide sufficiently so that joint representation would be appropriate. The mailing office is in the basement of the building which houses the printing office...
...Arthurs's view, the OWE does have a coherent mission, which may be best defined in terms of what it is not: It does not function as a dean of students office, nor is it especially concerned with collecting every conceivable fact about Radcliffe women...
...meantime, Arthurs sees the OWE as fulfilling in a different way Radcliffe's time-honored function for women at Harvard: "Radcliffe's traditional role has been to provide women with a place at Harvard. That is still its role, but today it means more than giving women dorm space or access to classrooms...
...from the Route 3 side anymore. Sometimes I'm even among those masses pushing into the old horseshoe. It doesn't seem to be nearly as electrifying an atmosphere as it used to be, but I can't decide if that is a product of the times or a function of my own age. Or both. Anyway, one always expects things like that to change over time: we look at things differently and, of course, they are different. We only become alarmed if things involving human behavior and viewpoint do not modify with time...