Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...correct and friendly relations with nearly all Communist parties, but we feel that these relations must be based on absolute autonomy. For a long period of time-for example, during the Comintern-the Soviet Communist Party was recognized as having a special position of hegemony. We ourselves recognized that function, but now the sun has definitely set on that period...
During the 20-year period, no CIA employee was prosecuted on federal charges, apparently because of the agreement. Offenders were simply quietly weeded out of the agency. The commission found "nothing to indicate that the CIA abused the function." Nonetheless, the report strongly criticized the Justice Department for having illegally "abdicated its statutory duties" in relinquishing the authority to prosecute American spooks and the CIA for getting involved "directly in forbidden law-enforcement activities." Attorney General Edward Levi ended the agreement last January soon after learning about it. Aides reported that he is prepared to prosecute, where it is warranted...
...speeches droned endlessly on, the white-haired scientist turned in despair to a fellow dinner guest and sighed: "I have just got a new theory of eternity." Albert Einstein's ennui at a function of the National Academy of Sciences was hardly unusual. Though the prestigious organization likes to consider itself the supreme court of American science, it has all too often resembled other self-perpetuating honor societies, like baseball's Hall of Fame or Hollywood's Oscar judges...
...guilty. The three priests in the majority (the two dissenters were the laymen) urged Washington Bishop William Creighton to "admonish" Wendt and forbid him to permit "any person whose ordination is not in conformity with the canons of the church"-like one of the women priests, for instance-to function as a minister in his parish. At a press conference, Wendt called his sentence "a real slap on the wrist" and said that he would appeal the conviction or seek a new trial. He also cited the two lay judges' forceful dissent supporting the validity of Cheek...
Steiner says he doubts the merger issue will come up next year, but the implementation of the Strauch Report could be a step in the direction of merger. When it loses sole control over its admissions office, the function of Radcliffe for undergraduates will be almost purely a spiritual...