Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mendelson said Yesterday he found "no adverse effects" from marijuana use aside from slight weight gain and a change in lung function similar to that produced by cigarettes...
...more than a lot of politicians can say. The fearful possibility is that they're going after newsmagazines because they did a good job this week." As Columnist William Buckley saw it, "The purpose of the editors was neither prurient nor inflammatory in the cover treatment. The function of newsmagazines is to vitiate ignorance. In that respect, both TIME and Newsweek passed the test...
DEHYDROACETIC ACID. Impairs kidney function and causes vomiting and convulsions...
...American Bar Association has suggested that death should now be legally redefined as the "irreversible cessation of total brain function." Only a few states-not including New Jersey -have passed such a law. Nor can lawyers in the case, after days of research, find a single court precedent. Though there are nominally three sides in the court action, all seem united in a desire to take this case on through the appeals courts to get a full and thoughtful legal resolution of the many issues. Her mother finds comfort in that, believing that God kept Karen alive "so that others...
...still held by many, that the university is a neutral community of scholars where religion should not intrude. The statistics I've just cited as well as the statement by the former president of Dartmouth indicate that this belief in the neutrality of the university performed nonetheless the important function of preserving the self-respect of many Jewish academics...