Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best method of preserving an historic building for the long run is to ensure that it performs a productive function. At first, Harvard's plan to reactivate the dining hall caused alarm because it carried the danger of destroying the character of the historic interior. However, it was obvious that the kitchen wing added in 1904 was inadequate, and that an additional facility was required...
...Defining itself against the Harlem Renaissance and deeply rooted in black cultural nationalism, the Black Arts writers imagined themselves as the artistic wing of the Black Power movement. Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal and Sonia Sanchez viewed black art as a matter less of aesthetics than of protest; its function was to serve the political liberation of black people from white racism. Erected on a shifting foundation of revolutionary politics, this "renaissance" was the most short-lived of all. By 1975, with the Black Arts Movement dead, black culture seemed to be undergoing a profound identity crisis...
...James Woolsey was getting hammered for his agency's leniency toward superspy Aldrich Ames' flagrant drunkenness, Freeh issued a blistering Alcohol Policy memo warning agents that even off-duty misconduct caused by drinking will have "harsh consequences," up to dismissal. Even when drinking moderately at a social function, G-men and -women must arrange for a designated driver. Freeh, says one, is "J. Edgar Hoover with kids...
...become a linchpin of global commerce and the world's financial system. Companies regularly use a form of derivatives called swaps to protect against the risk of sudden changes in exchange rates, commodities prices or other costs when they trade overseas or build plants abroad. Like all derivatives, they function, essentially, as bets on the direction of particular markets. So coveted is such insurance that the total face amount -- or "notional value" -- of swaps and similar contracts has soared to an astronomical $11 trillion, up from $5.1 trillion since...
Along Harlem's main thoroughfare, 125th Street, business is booming, a function of indigenous forces mostly but of Clinton's policies as well. The vacancy rate for commercial property is less than 2%, and space is renting for more than $30 per sq. ft., about the same as in midtown Manhattan, an astounding surge. New stores will soon dot the cross streets, and nearby housing units are being rehabilitated. The private investment responsible for most of this growth is following rising incomes and the return of better-off families. Perhaps most important is the anticipated designation of the area...