Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University should also expand the shuttle bus service and coordinate it with the escort service. The two are currently treated separately while they perform essentially the same function at night. More shuttle buses at night (while the improved daytime schedule is convenient, it does not alleviate any safety concerns), protected and lighted shuttle bus stops and more pick-up points are also needed...
...Washington, prove me wrong! Show that our taxes serve some nobler function than to perpetuate the IRS. I can think of two convincing approaches. One would be to use the 20% of the budget earmarked for defense to cancel the 30% of tax dollars that are earmarked for interest on the federal debt. I am talking about a global strike against the people to whom we owe the debt: Bomb 'em, strafe 'em, plow them under with tanks! If we could fight for oil, or whatever it was, we could surely fire a few rounds to lower the debt...
...park with hotels attached. Euro Disney is the reverse: a spectacular sprawl that confirms the company as a premier force in modern architecture. A decade ago, as architects began to shrug off their Modernist doldrums, they saw in Disney's park designs an attractive blend of wit, glamour and function. Suddenly there was nothing wrong with places that were fun to look at and to live in. Eisner took advantage of the new spirit and hired such Postmodernist master builders as Michael Graves (for the whimsical but still somehow leaden Swan and Dolphin hotels in Florida) and Robert A.M. Stern...
George Walker Weld, benefactor of the boat house which bears his name, would smile on this relationship. In 1889, when he founded "The Harvard Rowing club," he donated the initial building and a store of boats to function "as a University-wide facility for students who are not members of a rowing club, but who wish to participate in the sport for recreation...
...protein is also believed to act in an inhibitory fashion. This similarity, along with the fact that both proteins do not act in a specifically positional way, said Neufeld, give more evidence to support a relation in function to the two proteins...