Word: functioning
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...presidency made strong with the usurped powers of an other branch. As a former Senator and Congressman, it seems strange that Nixon does not fully appreciate this. The shape in which Congress emerges from its crisis, whether regaining its lost luster or continuing to recede, to function as a kind of windy Washington side show, may be determined by what the public demands of it. Ultimately, the nation gets the kind of Congress it deserves. As Charles Jones observes...
...item, what the Government should spend for what purpose, then dutifully raised the revenue to do so. It has attempted to deal with the growing complexity of spending and taxing by creating a multiplicity of committees and subcommittees. As a result, Congress has no overall view of either function, and thus no means of rationally setting priorities. The Bureau of the Budget, created in 1921 to aid both Congress and the President, has been captured by the Executive, reducing Congress to the role of making minor alterations in a hand-me-down budget produced by each Administration...
...initial phase of Truman's last illness, which began a month or more before he was admitted to hospital, treatment was routine: bed rest, to ease the burden on his lungs, for the rales were again noticeable. There was intermittent impairment of mental function. Graham prescribed antibiotics to reduce an infection in the lungs...
...Case for a Different Kind of Harvard which appears in the December Harvard Alumni Bulletin is a confused plea for a noble cause rational policy making at Harvard according to a consistent educational philosophy Patullo be director of the Center for Behavioral Sciences maintains that Harvard's most important function is the generation of knowledge followed closely by the training of additional "Scholar-teachers". Undergraduate instruction "complements and supports" these functions, but should be designed and conducted only with Harvard's more important goal in mind "the goal of maintaining a maximally productive group of research scholars as members...
Ironically, Patullo recognizes that Universities have more in common with churches than they do with factories. But he is willing to allow universities to forego their traditional moral and intellectually broadening roles for the sake of that greater economics and social rationalization that is narrowing function of the churches to the point of non-existence. Of course, universities "are socially created and serve social purposes," but to serve more slavishly the purpose of a decaying society spiritual impotence and institutional extinction. Harvard's mode of instruction may be outdated; its sexist and elitist values are outdated. The answer...