Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than three years after Czechoslovakia's "velvet revolution," the country announced the preliminary terms of a "velvet divorce." Slovak Vladimir Meciar and Czech Vaclav Klaus, whose parties gained pluralities in their respective republics in elections earlier this month, agreed last week to form an interim federal government. It will function chiefly as a liquidation committee for the 74-year-old state, and by Sept. 30 the details creating separate Czech and Slovak republics should be ironed...
...conjunction with the vocational-rehabilitation services of several states, nearly 7,000 disabled and handicapped people have been trained to function as full McDonald's employees by job coaches drawn from within the company. Before these less fortunate employees take their places, company trainers often put young able-bodied workers in blindfolds, gloves or dark glasses to demonstrate the kind of handicaps their new colleagues have to deal with in doing the same jobs...
...modern art gallery, and the audience has to walk through it to reach the stage. While some of the art objects are used to satirical effect--Senator Hum poses under Jasper Johns' "Three Flags" for a patriotic-looking photo--others seem intriguing but extraneous. There seems to be little function for a polyurethane foam "Iava" trail that leads from the audience to the side wall of the stage...
Such an atmosphere is crucial if students are to "function as effective leaders in an increasingly heterogeneous and internationalized world... against a backdrop of sporadic urban violence and international conflict," the president said...
...addition, the majority of asthma patients are seen by nonspecialists who still treat it as an intermittent problem rather than on a continuous basis. For that reason, the National Institutes of Health last year published a set of guidelines for health-care workers that emphasize closer monitoring of lung function and more comprehensive care for the underlying condition. For any but the mildest cases of asthma, the nih recommends that doctors reorganize their first line of defense to include such anti-inflammatory agents as cromolyn sodium or inhaled steroids. This strategy, the experts believe, should lessen the number and severity...