Word: functions
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...Health and Human Services has disbursed only $40 million on prevention and early-intervention programs since 1989. And the FBI's announcement last January that it was reassigning 300 agents from foreign counterintelligence to antigang efforts raised the question of how effectively a handful of ex-cold warriors can function in gang hot spots. In L.A. last February, 22 FBI agents were redeployed to join an existing 12-man gang squad...
...holdings. The regulatory agency won authority last year to impose fines of up to $50,000 for late or omitted filings. It also expanded the definition of insider. In the past, officers from vice presidents to CEOs were required to file. But now the category is defined by job function rather than by company title. Typically, executives with major responsibilities, including lab directors, actuaries and software developers, must file...
Steitz was the first to realize that patientswith lupus erythematosis, an autoimmune disease,produce antibodies to SNURPS, Maniatis said. Usingthese antibodies, she was able to isolate andcharacterize the function of SNURPS, whichrecognize the splicing sites of these introns...
...Oberlin, Buell says, "I feel I got a paninstitutional sense of how the undergraduate program and undergraduate life function. I think that's harder to do here at Harvard...
Dingman says the "big sibling" role assumed by some tutors is not endorsed by the administration. While a social relationship between tutors and students is important, Dingman says, the primary function of house tutors should be academic advising...