Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even if a Vice President's sole function is to be available for succession, he is a most significant official. There seem to be no genuine obstacles to each political party's setting up a less rushed timetable for the selection of its No. 2 standardbearer, so as to permit a full study of the candidate's background and qualifications. But what may be most urgently needed is party insistence that its vice-presidential candidate meet more demanding standards. Although Gerald Ford is an experienced politician, he is not notably different from the uncontroversial, ticket-balancing type...
...State Henry Kissinger, who had been alerted to be in his office, was delivered a letter signed by Agnew: "I hereby resign the office of Vice President of the United States, effective immediately." (The duty of receiving the resignation of a President or Vice President is an archaic function of Kissinger's office, spelled out by the Presidential Succession...
...things that could be done." Even Alan Pifer, president of the Carnegie Corporation, which paid the commission's bills, has admitted to feeling "somewhat wistful" that the commission did not tackle the thorny problem of undergraduate liberal education. But he stresses that the commission's function was to provoke discussion and thought, not to provide a blueprint. Says he: "The Carnegie Corporation has gotten its money's worth." Total price tag: $6.3 million...
When asked why he likes to work on concrete, Sam says "As an artist I am interested in external relationship: time, place and function. By working on the sidewalks I give my art a permanent place. With an easel it's different. You can't give your work any definite location in space. I make my art a part of its environment and I give it a function in that environment...
...hired the lone woman on its force in response to the growing female population on campus, MIT Police Chief Driscoll said yesterday. He also said that the patrolwoman they hired in July will perform the same function as the other officers on the force...