Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the program is fully implemented nationwide, foreign students will be issued a picture identification card that will function as a passport, she says...
...blood pressure depresses sexual function is unclear; why men and women react differently to medication is murkier still. The only thing certain from the study is that with hypertension a leading cause of heart attack and stroke, the first priority is still to get the pressure down...
This miracle of invention, inspired by a vanilla aria on which Handel himself wrote five unassuming variations, drew praise even from Brahms' antipode, Wagner. Like their worthy companions, the Bach Goldberg and the Beethoven Diabelli, these pieces explore the melodic and harmonic potential of their progenitor exhaustively, and function collectively as a treatise on the composer's sense of keyboard style. But more than the Goldberg and the Diabelli, the Handel variations are witty...
Schizophrenia is an irreversible disease whose symptoms can be curbed but not cured by drugs, according to experts. Is it possible for someone to suffer from paranoid schizophrenia and function for 18 years? Says Glick: "If you pull yourself out of society, live alone and are not married or dating, you can go a long time...
...Hope you like thinly veiled sexism. The women of The Jackal function only to jump-start the barely realized "vendetta" between Mulqueen and The Jackal. The film's best character by far, Major Valentina Koslova (Diane Venora), is wasted (literally and figuratively) to give the ineffectual Mulqueen another score to settle--a terrible thing to do to a strong, interesting female character. The script tries to redeem itself by giving Mulqueen's former girlfriend, Isabella (Matilda May), a key role in the resolution of the plot; but because her role is so impoverished throughout most of the film, the effect...