Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chirac conducted some of the tricky negotiations with union leaders on labor reforms that ended the crisis. When Pompidou moved to the Elysée, he brought his bulldozer into the Cabinet as Agriculture Minister and later Interior Minister. Several years ago, Chirac observed that the chief function of a Premier in France is to "take responsibility for everything that is a bit disagreeable and difficult." Chirac has seldom expressed a firm conviction on any issue; he seems less interested in political abstractions than in the technical exercise of sheer power...
...perhaps here that art and craft diverge. Art transcends its medium, and its function is to express in some sensitive way the common denominators of human experience, the essence of human dignity. Craft remains limited by the physical functions it must serve and the specifications of its media--it is art only when it extends its scope to the universal. The work in "Fire and Clay" comes close to transcending this boundary, and even in its failure is a beautiful and masterly exhibit...
...were an average of 43% lower than they were in a group of nonsmoking controls. Six of the marijuana users had lowered sperm counts, and two of them reported that they had become impotent. After abstaining from marijuana for two weeks, several subjects regained normal hormone levels and sexual function. One preferred the pleasures of pot to those of the pad. Despite a potency problem, he declined to give up marijuana...
...Graduate Student Panel is a group of graduate students, supposedly elected from all the graduate school departments. The function of the panel has been to represent graduate student opinion on questions of finance, workload and other student-faculty matters. Representatives from the panel are elected to the Committee on Graduate Education, a student-faculty advisory body which this year formulated a need-based financial aid plan...
...University should install a fire system that works, before things get out of hand. We share the feelings of Kenneth H. Levison, senior tutor in Lowell. "I would think that the administration would come up with a system that would function when there's a fire," he said. "We're very lucky that nobody was killed...