Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...players after five seasons and contains a team salary cap for owners, staving off the kind of spending spiral that has weakened professional baseball. The deal also signifies something invaluable to sports fans: no more strike fears. If only pro baseball's bickering, greed- riddled players and owners could function this smoothly...
...riot control -- Buchanan's image was drawn from the Los Angeles riots -- is a necessary function of government. But for most Americans it is not the apotheosis of the American Dream. It is the apotheosis of the police state...
...high velocities, explains Richard Mushotzky of NASA'S Goddard Space Flight Center, that a "cloud like this would have dissipated into space long ago, leaving nothing for us to detect, unless it was held together by the gravity of an immense mass." The unseen mass needed to perform this function may outweigh the amount of visible material by an astounding...
...very hard to function in a place where there are no role models," says Fernandez. You're at Harvard, but you don't feel you're represented in the administration or what the University does...
...course there are public schools which function well in their communities and fulfill the needs of their clientele. The point is that when they don't, the clientele is stuck with the product as it is, whether or not it fits their children...