Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Elizabeth Arden boasts that its Ceramide Time Complex Capsules contain various ingredients, including retinyl palmitate, and vitamins E and F, that together "fix, replenish or repair the barrier function of the skin." Shisheido touts Bio-Performance as a "super-revitalizer" that awakens the "skin's youthful balance." Avon is pushing three different antiaging treatments: BioAdvance (with vitamin A), Collagen Booster (vitamin C) and a new product to be introduced next year, Aneu (alpha-hydroxy acids). As for cellulite nostrums, Arden promotes its gel and moisturizer by citing clinical tests "from a renowned university in France." Lancome says...
...Placement: the bank sells corporate equity or debt on a non-public basis to large, market-aware, sophisticated investors. The bank's client will usually be a private company that needs to raise capital. The bank often just advises and obtains financing at most favourable terms, but its function may include evaluating the capital requirements of its client, analysing the private market, establishing the structure and prices of offerings, targetting potential investors and negotiating transactions to get the best price...
...course the court is not democratic in the dictionary way, but it has often served a democratic function. To take a dramatic example, the decision that political districts have to be of roughly equal population, the 1962 decision, was the greatest advance of democracy in modern times in the United States, and it was done by the Supreme Court. So it's not a simple question...
...essence of discovery is that the voyage is repeatable. It entails documentation -- logs and records. The discoverer is the person who gets from known A to unknown B, returns to A, and can then get back to B again. Columbus' claim to be a discoverer is, admittedly, a function of European consciousness. It exists only in a European cultural frame -- the native cultures and civilizations of America knew very well where they were. But this does not make it unreal. The achievement of Columbus' first voyage in 1492 was to open a route to the New World that could...
Alexis Toomer '93 closed the function with a rendition of "Amazing Grace...