Word: functions
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...university is to function effectively and honestly, all its members must be able to trust that their privacy is secure. No one should feel as though his or her work is being sabotaged or spied upon; University life is stressful enough without an added threat of a Big Brother watching your every move, ready to compromise your trust or steal your ideas...
Gabay stresses that the council's function is to provide services to the student body. In keeping with the spirit of service, Gabay meticulously adheres to the tenets he preaches...
...Republican Party recognizes that the family is the foundation and primary institution of human society and that if government has any proper function it is to ensure the safety, integrity and stability of marriage and parenthood. Those who refuse the responsibilities of family life should not expect special recognition or favor from the society whose fundamental institution they reject...
...Form and Function...
...little-girl sound in Hanna's singing (and in her frequent screaming) has, I think, a political function: like the term "grrrl" (and the little-girl photo on the cover), it seems to me to be reclaiming girlhood as a time of empowerment, before the heterosex drive kicks in and spoils everything. (If I'm right, it's a strategy psychologists have validated: Carol Gilligan and others have shown that girls in America have much more self-esteem before puberty than after...