Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wiley said that initially his organization would function on two levels. First, he said that grassroots organizers were already working in some areas to organize tax clinics for low-and middle-income tax-payers in 20 cities. Second, Wiley said that he hoped to start a Citizens Lobby for Economic Justice in 40 key congressional districts to make Congress more responsive to poor and middle-income people's issues...
According to some, RUS does not qualify as student government because it does not represent all women, especially women living at Harvard. We would argue, however, that the legitimacy of RUS as a body politic does not rest upon its perception as "representative" by Radcliffe women, but upon its function in the larger community. That is to say, women at Harvard, whether their own individual experience verifies this classification or not, remain, until merger, a distinct group in the eys of University administrators. Therefore, they require an agent with the authority to voice their collective interests and the power...
...elements that justified the agonized endeavor in the stadium. But I'm not sure that this isn't like beating your head against a wall because it feels so good when you stop. The ordered exercise was a way of disciplining one's life so that it had function and regularity beyond that of the more oblique areas of academia. But this order could be achieved in a less strenous fashion...
...general effort to put out more issues with more student writing. As it turns out, this is the first issue to appear since last spring, and the number of undergraduate writers is well under a third of the whole. There is a real need for a magazine that will function as a consistently open vehicle for undergraduate literary efforts. It would be nice if the Advocate returned to its program to achieve just that...
...much of society treats the aged as an undifferentiated group whose only function is to await death. The author took one feisty woman to pose as a pro spective resident of a retirement community. Here, purred the salesman, "you are free from worry. We have a security patrol, 24 hours a day, just looking after your welfare so you can sleep in peace." Replied Mrs. Duffy: "Thafs exactly what the man said when I bought a plot in the cemetery...