Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teeth on. But first the vet had to rule out rat poison and cancer with a blood test ($45) and a liver scan ($140). Then there was the emergency work-up ($45), followed by a catheter ($30), urinalysis ($22), a steroid injection and lab work to check organ function ($71); anesthesia ($345); an IV attached to a leg ($110); a biopsy ($45); upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy for fiber-optic images of his stomach, small intestine and colon ($75); antibiotics and Tagamet for the ulcer ($25); plus five days of hospitalization...
...attempted to continue my academic and extracurricular schedule as usual, but I felt alienated from my peers and unable to function productively. There was something unpleasantly surreal about attending my classes, sitting in the dining hall and doing my homework as usual, while, unbeknownst to almost everyone, undergoing this emotional and physical upheaval. It was very difficult to reconcile the experience of being pregnant and having an abortion with the experience of being a successful, well-adjusted college student...
...wild surmise leaps up: maybe Hook is going to be a true work of the imagination, something quick and wildly improvising, like a child's account of a made-up adventure. But the real function of this sequence is to provide a humble contrast to the excesses that follow, rendering the well-publicized gazillions that have been lavished on Hook all the more impressive...
Although the work of Counter's Foundation can be fairly criticized for relying too heavily on feel-good cultural activities, Foundation functions are, at least, well-attended. The Foundation's mandate is narrow, but it seems to do a decent job within that mandate. Hernandez-Gravelle's Office, with a much freer hand, fails to perform its crucial function within the University...
...ethnic, racial and cultural groups function as support networks for many of those who belong to them. Nelson B. Boyce '92, a BSA member, says, "the common thing at the base of the whole matter is that we're all Black and in that, we should come together and celebrate Blackness, and look out for one another and make sure that not only do we graduate, but that we all graduate with honors...