Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only imaginable explanation for your complete omission of Ross' remarks is that you are unaware: unaware of who David Ross is, unaware of the content of his speech, unaware of the purpose and function of the Signet as a Society of Arts and Letters...
More than 20,000 U.S. residents suffer from Huntington's, a fatal disease, which usually manifests during middle age. Symptoms include progressive loss of muscle control and cognitive function, often leading to dementia...
...Democratic Convention, Al Gore relived the car accident that nearly killed his young son, and Paul Tsongas told us about his battle with cancer, which he now must face again. For years Jesse Jackson has been telling us that he was born out of wedlock. No major political function these days, Democrat or Republican, is complete without at least one AIDS sufferer. Clinton is not alone in evoking familiarity; he just does it better than anyone else. The only people who might challenge him for that distinction are the TV-talk-show hosts. There was a lot of comment this...
...social function the groups fulfill canalso make them centers of the "cliques" whichstudents say exist in several houses...
...less tangible function of the royal family is to act as a sort of projection for people's emotions or aspirations. Diana's contemporaries, especially women, see her as a kind of feminist heroine, a fighter who knows her own worth, what she wants out of life and how to flout traditional protocol to get it. Even Camille Paglia, the American feminist movement's holy terror, got the message and has jumped on the bandwagon. Writing in the New Republic, she argued that "Diana may have become the most powerful image in world popular culture today...