Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...profession seems to be tearing itself apart from within, divided by an ideological dichotomy between conservatives and critical legal studies proponents about the function of lawyers. This has spilled out for public debate in a less academic form: At stake is whether lawyers are compelled to be fiery crusaders in the fight for truth, justice and the American Way, or are mere functionaries in a corporate milieu...
Schultz is well known for his work with antibodies, which are proteins of the immune system. He demonstrated that antibodies, which help the body fight off diseases, can function as enzymes to catalyze biochemical reactions...
...replacing amino acids in a given protein with such a large variety of synthesized amino acids, scientists hope to gain a better understanding of the function of proteins...
...tattoos: groups of blue parallel lines on the Iceman's lower spine, a cross behind the left knee and stripes on the right ankle. "Since all these tattoos were covered by clothing," says Spindler, "they must have had an inner meaning for the man and not have had the function of identification for other tribes." Some scientists suggest that the designs might have been used to mark the passage from youth to manhood. One fact is certain: until this discovery, it was thought that tattooing originated 2,500 years later...
THERE COMES A MOMENT IN ALL losing campaigns when the energy evaporates. Political operatives function primarily on adrenaline, carry-out food and the hope that "two more weeks of this and I'll have an office in the White House and clean underwear." But when the President goes to the Debate of His Life and keeps looking at his watch as if he had a much more important engagement elsewhere, there is no way for his minions not to lose heart. Trickle-down doom is inevitable when the candidate is physically present at the debates but is already mentally...