Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, for every dose of education there's a double dose of "ecomerchandising" trailing right behind. Of course, some products--such as mugs and recycled paper goods--are dedicated to the environment in function as well finance. And the recent barrage of "50 things you can do..." books have some valuable suggestions to offer, although their McEnvironment formats tend to trivialize the gravity of the problem...
...noble for Bok and the Faculty to have decided that they can't improve on the First Amendment. But everyone should realize that, for better or for worse, Harvard's policy in this area is much more a function of legal necessity than of academic choice...
Such links also fulfill an important social function. Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson invented the term "generativity" to describe the necessary transmission of life experiences from elder to younger generations. In the 1970s, anthropologist Margaret Mead prophetically wrote that an increasing lack of contact between old and young relatives would create a need for surrogate grandparents...
...based entrepreneurial firm called Orbital Sciences, dropped from under the wing of a B-52 and carried into orbit a small 200-kg (450-lb.) satellite, one of a new type of craft that promises to bring space history full circle. Called lightsats, the new payloads pack as much function into a few hundred kilograms as satellites many times their size. At $8 million a launch, they could open space to new military and industrial uses...
Membership is not defined as a function of mass attendance as McLaughlin erroneously asserts. Furthermore, the leadership does not tout the large number of Catholic undergrads to "turn the assets of the group toward their own personal agendas." If someone respnds to the CSA's outreach, as the author does, by choosing not to help, how can his apathy or neglect be blamed on those who have sacrificed so much of their time for others...