Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convention must still address the question of the function and purpose of the new government...
This is terribly embarrassing to Soviet intelligence. Charles Bronson is the secret agent dispatched to clean up the mess before it spreads too far; Lee Remick plays the double agent who is supposed to assist him but whose real function is to fall in love with him while they try to head off Pleasence before he sets all the old agents' bells aringing. There are entertaining possibilities in this improbable story. At least it avoids being paranoid, not only about the KGB but also, more remarkably, about the CIA, a more recently fashionable whipping boy. But Director Siegel...
...Swardt said that blacks will no longer have to carry passes. But these passes are merely being replaced by "passports" issued by Bantustan administrations. They will continue to serve the same function: to prevent blacks from living permanently or with their families in the "white" areas, which contain 87 per cent of South Africa's territory and all important towns, resources and agriculture. Most blacks must work there, but they are often forced to leave their spouses and children behind in the Bantustans...
...state at the conclusion of their undergraduate studies, the staff is there to see that other students carry on their projects. These professional staff members also assist and coordinate student research and supervise most of the lobbying and litigative activities of PIRG. Without its staff, PIRG could not function half as effectively as it does today...
Many liberals question the depth of the drive for determinate sentences. Noting that many judges hand out tough sentences but do not expect them to be fully served, the University of Chicago's Franklin Zimring argues that parole serves a humane function "in a system that seems addicted to barking louder than it really wants to bite." Thus the firm-sentences movement could turn out to be short-lived. Harvard's Alan Dershowitz, for one, has predicted that after a period of legislative intrusion into sentencing, complaints will be voiced about excessive conformity and rigidity, "and the cycle...