Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been pretty quiet, but I don't mind it," Lyons said. "My main function is to keep [campaign supporters] 150 feet from the buildings, but they have been very orderly...
Governor William F. Weld '66, Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine also attended the function...
Samantha Spitzer, a senior at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, said many students in accelerated classes "can't function with the other groups." The task force hopes that outstanding programming across the curriculum will make accelerated classes unnecessary...
...were to look only at Mansfield's remarks, the notion of civil rights for homosexuals would indeed sound laughable after all, why should a collection of irresponsible thespians, bon-mot formulators and civilization-haters demand legal protection because of an identity based on these very traits? They function usefully, Mansfield generously concedes, as society's sideshow freaks, but that's simply not a good enough reason to assure their civil rights...
...cell's master molecule, DNA carries the blueprints needed to make proteins. Roberts and Sharp found that genes -- the subdivisions corresponding to different proteins -- are usually not single sections of DNA, as once believed, but discrete chunks, interrupted by stretches of nonsense DNA that seem to have no function. In protein making, only the pieces of meaningful DNA are copied and then spliced together. The splicing can go awry, producing faulty proteins and genetic diseases or, on rare occasions, improved proteins that enable evolution to take place...