Word: functions
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...study appearing in the December 1 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showed that a mixture of two drugs--pentoxifylline and Ro24-7429--was 100 times more effective than either drug alone at blocking the function of "Tat," a viral protein essential to the spread of HIV in the body...
...several committee members said they feltadditional evaluations would place moreadministrative burdens on departments and wouldduplicate the function of the CUE guide...
Despite the swirl of controversy over the Harvard Semitic Museum and its restructuring, and my deep commitment to the future of the museum, and its return to its primary function as an archaeological museum, I have chosen not to speak publicly, but to remain in peaceful retirement. I am a long-time friend of most of the principals in the dispute, and have had no desire to hurt any one of them. I have written to Dean Jeremy R. Knowles expressing my hearty and unqualified approval of the report of the Advisory Committee to the Harvard Semitic Museum. In fact...
...Department [of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations] and the [Harvard Semitic] Museum were conceived as mutually supporting and equally necessary parts of a single endeavor. The Museum was designed to function particularly as an agency for archaeological research and exploration in addition to its role as home of the Department and repository for artifacts and monuments which made up the collections for teaching, research and public display. Its central focus must increasingly be that for which it was founded, namely ancient Near Eastern archaeological exploration, research and publication. The quest for endowment must be first of all to satisfy these...
...function is also to set the stage for the savagery of Schindler's dark double and most dangerous antagonist, Amon Goeth, commandant of the nearby labor camp, played by Ralph Fiennes in the film's most compelling performance. A man of Schindler's own age and background, he likes to sit on the balcony of his house idly shooting prisoners who happen to wander into his gunsight. He keeps as a servant a Jewish woman named Helen Hirsch (Embeth Davidtz), whom he constantly beats and humiliates precisely because against all dictates of ideology, he loves her. The point about this...