Word: functions
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...aspect is that women teel isolated in a large lecture class and it's hard for them to function," says Friend, who chaired the faculty standing committee on women for three years. "This might lead them to leave the sciences...
These aren't really characters; they are points on a rigidly conceived political spectrum. From the moment you meet him, you know, for example, that Rapaport's miserable character has only one fate and one function: to bring the movie to a predictably bloody, conventionally instructive but emotionally abstract conclusion. Singleton has made all the right political moves given his complicated circumstances, but he hasn't really made a movie of them...
Subsidiarity, then, is often just an intellectual and financial free lunch. And there are other problems as well. To function properly, government must be a monopoly. We can argue, as we do, about what taxes and regulations ought to be imposed on individual citizens, and what benefits ought to be made available. Even after that argument is settled democratically, though, subsidiarity can make the settlement hard to enforce...
...what Perot saw as an evil plan to suck away American jobs seems to have the Mexican government scared--and rightly so. Yet the result is quite different from Perot's original prediction. Perot had pictured a secret, planned devaluation, not an occurance which is clearly a function of the market. In fact, the sucking sound he envisioned has yet to materialize...
Passing around a list of every function in the budget, Kasich said, "All of these groups will be looked at under the prism of can it be eliminated, can it be privatized, can it be cut?" Hearing the magnitude of Kasich's plan for the first time, Gingrich was concerned. "The other committees are all going to jump on you," he warned Kasich. Soon-to-be majority leader Dick Armey of Texas added a stern caution of his own: "If you get out too far ahead of us, you're going to be out there alone...