Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There was no pattern to the chippers' use of heroin," he said. "It was largely a function of chance rather than planning...
...student dorm will have several entryways; need they all be physically attached? From Robinson Hall to Holworthy, from Robinson to Emerson, there must be enough room to fit 200 students and save Hunt Hall, perhaps incorporating it as a Freshman center, a function the Union has failed to serve despite its new paint job. Hunt could house practice rooms, a center for women in the Yard, a lounge, a grill...
...newest reform builds on the last, which supposedly gave more authority to directors of individual factories. Over the next three years, plants that make related products are to be grouped into "production associations" that are to function roughly like large, multidivision U.S. corporations; each will have its own board of directors and research and development facilities. According to plan, top executives of these corporations will get extensive authority to set profitable production schedules, to design products and to develop markets for them...
...writes: "The little Louise van Salome endowed her God with so intense a reality that His -- inevitable -- failure to appear when first challenged to do so cast the pall of being abandoned by God....over this child and her entire future." Accordingly Lou's successive mentors served the substitute function. From her childhood tutor, a pastor 25 years her elder, to her husband, who was "never her husband in the accepted sense of the word," to the Ur-father of the psychoanalytic movement, each took his turn in the position of the revered and remote paternal divine. As the correspondance...
...simply hormone deficiencies, independent completely of the passage of time. Much of aging is thought to be due to connective tissues losing their ability to transmit nutrients and wastes, thus starving and poisoning the cell simultaneously. Doctors are searching for a chemical formulation that will permit these tissues to function indefinitely...