Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face of it, this seems to be a rational and satisfactory solution. The University will function as scheduled without hindering Jews in the performance of their religious duties. However, upon closer examination, this solution becomes problematic...
...will also devote time to minority recruiting, a function performed last year by a graduate student...
Threatening Demigod. The palace, which was officially reopened for the first time since Lon Nol's 1970 military takeover from Sihanouk, may not be occupied for long. Though the Prince is formally Chief of State of the Royal Government of the National Union of Cambodia, his function within the Khmer Rouge government will probably be very limited. Revered in the countryside not merely as a monarch but as a Buddhist demigod, Sihanouk could become a serious political threat to the newly entrenched Communist leadership. His return was brokered by the Chinese, who are vying with North Viet...
...organisms have "circadian" rhythms (from circa, about, and diem, day), whose periodicity is a response to biological needs. The psychological sense of time is one of durée, of bleak moments and moments of bliss, of the agony of time prolonged and time eclipsed; memory is not the function of a "length" of time, but of its intensity. Most important, in the area of work-the experience that shapes character-time was long considered a function not of the clock, but of the sun and the seasons...
Sheed has tried to function both as a desk-bound essayist, considering Ali as a charged particle visible through the tubes and teleprinters of the press, and as a reporter, observing the man in his splendid flesh, talking with him, touching him, telling us what Ali is really like. The worthwhile results might fill a short magazine article. The rest is throat-clearing, padding and prattle. "Why write about Ali? Why paint the Mono Lisa?" Sheed asks aimlessly. And elsewhere: "It was almost as hard to tell how much Ali was really suffering as it is with his fellow Capricorn...