Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Unfortunately," it continued, "in now suggesting substantial compromise after having encouraged us all year to stand firm, the trustees have inadvertently made it impossible for us to function effectively in our current positions...
Revel is a disillusioned Socialist who was once a Programme Commun candidate for the National Assembly. He defines his ideal of socialism broadly-"any evolution, reform or revolution" that tends to make an economy "function to the benefit of a larger number of men and [put it] a little more under their control." Such true socialism as exists in the world today, he argues, can survive only along with social justice and political democracy-that is, in the liberal democracies of the West. The two principal obstacles to socialism are Communism and nationalism, he contends. The combination...
...drive from U.S. bases in Germany and only two hours from NATO headquarters in Brussels. Most of Luxembourg's borders are untended even by customs officials, and its pine forests offer thousands of safe passageways to anyone who wants to saunter into another country. Those forests also function as hiding places for the "dead-letter boxes" that spies use to pass information...
...society as a whole, considered apart from its living units, presents phenomena of growth, structure and function analogous to those of growth, structure and function in an animal...
...exam, you can. "Clearly," one administrator says, "it's very easy to get a makeup exam around here. If you're tired, extremely fatigued, backache, sore throat, or any number of aches and pains, you just go to UHS, stand in line, and say you can't function. My understanding is it's like rolling off a log. The only reason more people don't do it is that you have to pay the piper with a makeup exam later on." Most people who bag exams are good students, people who can't stand the thought of a blemish...