Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...class marshals organize the activities for their class' graduation and senior week, and the first marshals function as co-presidents of the senior class...
...flying back to Washington aboard Air Force One. At 6:30 that night, Clinton met with his top advisers, who argued out a number of different ideas before him. There was never any discussion of immediate withdrawal. "The President rejected that as too damaging to our ability to function militarily in the world," says a top official. By the time they broke up they were agreed on the essentials of the strategy: reinforce the troops, shift from a get-Aidid policy to a more political approach and set a hard deadline for withdrawal...
...remains at least questionable. Clinton's decision to go "multilateral" on the more ambitious project of re-creating a nation, a well-intentioned and perhaps even logical choice though that judgment was, has certainly not been a success to date. The U.N.'s initiative to that end could not function without American military assistance, and that military mission has gone astray. In Somalia as in Bosnia, "multilateralism" was the choice of appearing to do something between unignorable spasms of tumult...
President Clinton's plan for health care reform through "managed competition" is flawed to the very core. The only effective solution to the health care crisis is to allow the market for medical services to function freely, unconstrained by destructive regulation and financially draining responsibility shifting...
...function of the committee to look into departmental reorganization...We have tried that," said Wolff after the meeting. "The committee has to make a very good case [for a committee] so the Council will vote in its favor...