Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...universities and cities or towns are all different in the ways they function," says Marilyn Lyng O'Connell, Harvard's director of community relations and a member of the new town-gown task force. "It's like comparing apples and oranges...
Said the report, "free interchange of ideas is vital for our primary function of discovering and disseminating ideas through research, teaching and learning. Curtailing of free speech undercuts the intellectual freedom that defines our purpose...
...when Susan Brownmiller published her book Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape. In it she attacked the concept that rape was a sex crime, arguing instead that it was a crime of violence and power over women. Throughout history, she wrote, rape has played a critical function. "It is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation, by which all men keep all women in a state of fear...
...number of state development offices abroad, which function almost like consulates, has doubled in the past five years, to 160. Illinois has more foreign offices than many small nations; it has outposts in Moscow, Shenyang, Brussels, Warsaw, Budapest, Toronto, Mexico City, Hong Kong and Osaka. No fewer than 38 states -- plus San Bernardino, Calif., and Houston -- maintain offices in Tokyo...
...navy and finds himself shooting at a much larger Austrian force across the barrier of a river that is, alas, drying up. Friends die. He is swept up in a mutinous retreat, caught, imprisoned, condemned, then released on the whim of a mad dwarf in the war ministry, whose function is to make sure that military orders are garbled and meaningless. Then he is thrown back into the line, wounded, and swept up again, this time in a love affair with a nurse...