Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been smooth sailing ever since. "It gives me energy, it helps to eat, it helps to sleep, it helps me to function and it's like oil for my brain," says Talshir, 39, a resident of Bourne, Mass. "Am I going to take all the bullshit chemicals the doctors prescriber? I know that this stuff really works...
Though similar in name and function to the undergraduate peer counseling service, Room 13, the Medical School group is completely independent of the undergraduate organization, said Jeff L. Greenwald, a Room 166 counselor...
...officer on duty said that the supervisor was unavailable, because he was providing security at a private function. Eventually, the officer admitted it was possible to reach the supervisor by radio, so I left him a message concerning my problems with the escort service...
Although the representatives were performing a valuable function by clarifying the resolutions, the subcommittees should have eliminated the need for explanation before they went to the main body. Had they done so, the length of council meetings could have been cut in half...
...rationale is not simply the need to meet the demands of the American car market or harness the spirit of innovation. From the homogeneous vantage points of Japan and Germany, the exuberant free thinking seems to be a function of L.A.'s slam-bang Anglo-Afro-Latino-Asian ethnic mix -- cultural democracy by default. "The Southern California area is like a melting pot -- there are so many different races," says Mitsubishi vice president Satoru Tsujimoto. "From those different backgrounds, there are many different values. So there are many different designs." For companies acutely conscious of their need to sell cars...