Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Country's appeal is not a function of the leading economic indicators, however. It draws its power mostly from people like Jyne Kubas, 52, an Alan Jackson fan who is not embarrassed to say she still hurts from her divorce 10 years ago. " 'Cowboys don't die and heroes don't cry,' " she says, repeating the sardonic opening lines of Jackson's song Here in the Real World. "He says life is not like the movies. I used to tell people he took a phrase out of my life." For Kubas, as for many of the nation's still growing...
...Every function that I have ever catered for[Gomes] has had an academic purpose in mind," saysPierce. "I can't every remember any function thatcan be called 'personal.' Any catering I did forGomes was all church related...
...LEGAL QUESTION is whether the Hibernians have a legitimate right as a private organization to discriminate in accepting applicants for the yearly parade. Though the fraternal order points to logistical problems--such as late applications--as reasons for denying the IGLO's request, their refusal is clearly a function of discrimination. There is new evidence which suggests that another Irish-American organization, the F.B.I. Emerald Society, was admitted to the parade although its application was not in the waiting list...
Goldstock says most of the Gambino crime operations could function even with a leadership vacuum at the top. The trouble will start if the family becomes involved in disputes with other Mob families about dividing the take in shared territory, such as construction or private trash carting. Some organized-crime experts predict that Gotti could meet the same fate as Castellano -- a Mob assassination -- if he ever goes free. The same goes for Gravano. By breaking the sacred code of omerta, or silence, he has committed a capital crime in the eyes of his Mafia brothers. "This...
...have a purpose, you're serving some kindof function for the community," she said. "It'sreally a positive experience...