Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million stadium was consequently built in tandem with a mammoth harness racing circuit; its primary function at this juncture in its history is to pay off the substantial debt which the state must foot almost exclusively--oh, yes, the Giants pay no property taxes in Jersey...
...patronage, contracts, legal fees and other material incentives are the fuel the machine requires to function, then the regular Democratic ward organizations are the engines which use that fuel to keep the machine running strong. They are the base the machine rests on. The city is broken into 50 wards, each with its own boss, the ward committeeman, who is elected in the party's mayoral primary. Committeemen choose the man who will run for alderman or for the state legislature from their area--subject to Daley's approval naturally--and they often pick themselves. Since Democrats usually...
...Schorr was afraid that CBS would keep him on until the memory of his ethics committee performance had faded and then quietly fire him. He also thought that he would not be able to fit in easily again at the CBS Washington bureau. "I would doubt my ability to function effectively if reinstated," explained Schorr, who first joined the CBS News staff 23 years ago. "My reinstatement would be a source of tension within an organization whose future success I still care about...
...referred to "born again" as an experience rather than an institutional affiliation. But the words become conventionalized, he says. They function as a code with overtones. They are, like an evocation, symbol-suffused. As with the symbolic communion in the Catholic church, vibrations reverberate around the term, Cox says. Included in those vibrations is the question, are you serious about your religion--is it personal...
...post-Mao leadership headed by Premier Hua seems to be saying that the Peking regime will continue to function despite the genuine national grief over Mao's passing. An editorial published in China's major newspapers cited what was claimed to be a previously unpublished dictum from Mao: "Act according to the principles laid down." Mao's successors, the implication was, would follow the basic domestic and foreign policies established before the Chairman's death...