Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...silting up the dam. In addition, salt water is moving upstream in the Delta, eroding farm land or making it saline. There has been an alarming spread of schistosomiasis. Also, a water weed is growing so fast in Lake Nasser behind the dam that it may endanger the hydroelectric function by increasing evaporation from the lake...
Your Essay on how we pick our leaders [Dec. 15] reminds us of the useful function President Ford is serving. Just as Nixon caused us to look for honesty in government, Ford is prompting us to say, "Can't we do better than this...
...equality is almost totally won in Scandinavia. Divorce is relatively easy, abortion is mostly free, and in Sweden, either parent can receive temporary compensation from the state for staying home with a baby or a sick child, instead of going to work. To demonstrate that the country cannot function without them, Icelandic women staged a one-day strike in October: schools, theaters and telephone service were all shut down...
...home and abroad. The exposure was undoubtedly healthy-up to a point. But in the case of the CIA, it also severely hampered the agency's effectiveness. This year, the committees may well establish guidelines for the conduct of both organizations and try to restore the long-neglected function of congressional oversight...
...told in prehistory-there are monsters in the cave paintings. In ancient Egypt, the god Osiris was chopped to pieces on the orders of his mother. Terror haunts Beowulf and the Book of Job. But horror as civilized commercial entertainment arose in the rationalist 18th century, and its compensatory function was recognized. In one of his Caprichos, Painter Francisco Goya said it all: "The sleep of reason breeds monsters...