Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best this kind of arrangement can function much like the U.N. coalition against Iraq did, with individual nations uniting to cut off the aggressor and forcing the return of captured land. Unlike the gulf coalition, however, real collective security will work even when there is no oil in sight--it works to cut off aggression early, before it can grow into a wider conflict...
Scientists, doctors, and philosophers gathered last week at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to explore new techniques for examining previously invisible aspects of brain function...
Marc D. McKay '94, who originally leveled the charge of fraud against Prabhu, says he feels "vindicated" and will not press for the Ad Board to intervene. This is irrelevant. That McKay won't pursue the issue shouldn't matter: The Ad Board's function is to maintain certain standards of behavior in the Harvard community...
...banking industry recovers, its attitude about lending needs to swing back from hypercaution to moderation. This trend could be hastened if government would take another look at its banking regulations and find ways to relax the rules, and restore the risk-taking function of banks, without endangering the health of the FDIC. With interest rates so low, a batch of new loans would go a long way toward invigorating small and medium-size businesses, which are the nimblest sector of the economy and the most likely to provide new jobs in a hurry. Until that happens, no matter who gets...
Symptoms of the degenerative brain disorder, which usually begin to appear in middle age, include a progressive loss of control over all the muscles of the body. Patients often exhibit a decline in cognitive function and sometimes dementia, and the disorder is fatal...