Word: functions
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...selfish" national interests like oil. His pretense that our motives were altruistic has now caused the world to look to us for help in areas like Bosnia and Somalia where we have no strategic interest and cannot afford to be bogged down. The idea that government should function as protector of its own country's interests and not as global crusader is another conservative principle of limited government that (except in Rio) Bush has largely ignored...
Bisexual behavior may serve a similar function for another highly intelligent mammal: the dolphin. "Sometimes male dolphins use homosexual sex to assert dominance over other males, and other times they use it in a friendly way, but always they are negotiating relationships," says Richard Connor, a biologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution...
Samp says that the number of people registeredto vote is a function of "how interested peopleare in politics...
...successor -- a national audience over the Emergency Broadcast System. Throughout the Eisenhower Administration -- and for years after -- a vault held tape-recorded addresses by both Eisenhower and celebrity Arthur Godfrey. The prerecorded message was concise: The country has come under nuclear attack, but the government continues to function. In addition, a number of prominent newsmen who had taken oaths of secrecy had agreed to accompany the President to the relocation site of his choosing and lend their familiar names and faces to help calm the surviving audience...
...first child was born. He doesn't like the way the system "lets you know what we're doing wrong, not what they're doing wrong." Smalley, who now works as an animal-care technician and goes to school at night, admits that many of his friends simply cannot function as fathers: "Some don't even try. Some don't care. They just turn to drugs or drug dealing as their way out." But he stresses that there are many more who are trying to be responsible, who want their kids to have two parents, a good education...