Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program like this is important because it gives you an overview of other people's responsibilities and the pressures under which they function," she said...
...Young Lawyers Section have begun organizing a nationwide network of volunteer attorney groups. "Disaster victims are often in shock for six to eight weeks," says Harry Hathaway, chairman of the A.B.A.'s Young Lawyers Section. "Sometimes a lawyer is needed merely to perform a hand-holding function during a time of difficult decisions." Even so, there is something faintly saddening about finding that a flood victim's situation has become so complex that where once a neighbor's simple act of charity would have done, now a lawyer may be the person most able to give effective...
...appear to be double agents, at the very least. Allegiances are never clear. As the years pass and the search for parts continues all over postwar Europe, loyalties fade and new, complicated patterns suggesting international business cabals emerge. Everyone seems to be a part of an incomprehensible engine whose function is to generate paranoia. Call it history; call it the modern world where science and technology change the rules faster than they can be written...
...sprang, as we are told, from Adam's rib, the nature of female sexuality has been a subject of profound puzzlement. Seemingly more complex and less consistent in her sexual response than man, woman has been encouraged to accept a number of distorting and often disparaging myths regarding the function of her own body. Woman is naturally less orgasmic than man, the story goes, because she is simply a less sexual animal, or because she is simply a less sexual animal, or because she finds her ultimate fulfillment in pregnancy and childrearing rather than copulation...
...mere citizens. His argument is based on a corporatist vision of society, where different people play different roles, and have a correspondingly different legal status. The claims of reporters to a journalists' privilege are analogous in their assumption of a social division of labor which concentrates the investigative function in a distinct class. Popkin and other academics could be the brains of society, and reporters would be the eyes--leaving the rest of us to fight for the positions below society's neck...