Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subtly interlocked and influence each other powerfully. In terms of credibility, they run the gamut from the generally accepted -- acupuncture for pain relief; to the plausible -- inhaling eucalyptus to open the sinuses (aromatherapy); to the frankly bizarre -- having the middle of your right foot manipulated to improve your liver function (reflexology...
...plan to stop making lists and charts. It's the way I function," she adds...
...were scholars of American race relations and the Black experience--a rich cadre of intellectuals including our own Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., Dean Alvin Pouissant and Professor Sara Lawrence Lightfoot--not called upon to help the nation interpret this most tangled of dramas? To confine that function to handlers, lawyers and the interest group leaders served to deprive us all of vital insights on the relationship between race and sex and to estrange the public from an understanding of government. It further perpetuated the unfortunate view that Blacks are always the subjects of analysis, but, incapable of being analytical...
Thomas should be confirmed. Nothing could send a more powerful message to would-be dirt-diggers and rumor-mongers that the Senate's advise and consent function will not be further corrupted...
...that some see parental fines as clashing with the right to public education, which he concedes is absolute. But, he observes, "everything has a context. It is clear that too many parents and students believe that all kids cannot learn or that their ability to learn is more a function of genetic makeup than of how much effort you put in. I think both those notions are wrong, so I believe anything society does to strengthen family responsibilities and give schools the chance to teach is acceptable. And given that parents are an integral part of a child's education...