Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...individual giving and tightens disclosure but opposes any public financing on the grounds that it is wrong "to make millions of Americans pay [for] the political activities of individuals and parties with which they might totally disagree." This argument overlooks the fact that electing public officials is a public function and that millions of taxpayers already support activities with which they may totally disagree: farmers help pay for mass-transit systems, city dwellers for milk subsidies, pacifists for defense budgets...
...lower corner of page 20, clock hands would be drawn to indicate the time of the rendezvous. Woodward says he never figured out how Deep Throat got hold of his newspaper. Despite his impeccable connections, Deep Throat was reluctant to feed the reporters new information. His main function was to corroborate their findings, steering them away from false leads and confirming their true ones. It was Deep Throat who, among other things, told the pair that the burglary was only part of a wide political intelligence network and that former Attorney General John Mitchell knew about...
...necessarily the decisive one. "We see little old ladies who drink less than a pint a day who are dying," says Harold Swift, of the Hazelden Foundation's model treatment facility in Minnesota. "Yet we see men who go through better than a fifth a day and still function well...
...moral resonance of the play infects the actors with a louder evil. Anyway the only ones who can carry off the bourgeois ambivalence are those with their own natural appeal, like John Carito's Journeyman. The others sometimes blow too-sinister cigar smoke, and take over the simpler, symbolic function of the leering village idiot...
...then, seems to be taking on the role of an information service, relegating structural issues to abstract debates. Yet even that function will be restricted by the committee's decision Thursday to exclude the general public and members of the press from the group's meetings...