Word: functions
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...students will not force them to conform to legal norms, primarily because social norms often encourage an undergraduate drinking culture. Temperance, which should be the objective of the state with regard to such an appetite as that for alcohol, will best be served by allowing the college culture to function autonomously and for students to discipline themselves. The state has no particular interest in preventing students from drinking, only in receiving federal highway funding, so lax enforcement seems to be the most appropriate compromise...
...Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig defines the true function of a university not as the inculcator of the tools of rote learning, but as the instiller of a life-long love of and respect for knowledge. He writes, "The real university...is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries and which does not exist at any specific location. It's a state of mind, which is regenerated throughout the centuries by a body of people....The real university is nothing less than the continuing body of reason itself...
...stone that had to be heavy enough to continue turning between kicks from someone's foot. Flywheels were a prominent feature of the Industrial Revolution, delivering a smooth flow of power over the bumps and jerks made by an engine's piston strokes, and small flywheels perform that function in every car today...
...mail is an efficient way to exchange vital information quickly, and as those who have had to wait for hours to use Science Center or Loker Commons computer terminals know, brevity has its advantages. But in notes to close friends, especially friends in remote locales, one should never choose function over fashion. Second, letters are constructed with a flourish and if a particular writer favors short muscular phrases, why not go with...
...butt kissing." That alone may have been enough, but there was a good deal of self-interest involved too. Gingrich knew that supporting Dole could preclude a younger pretender from emerging, thus preserving the Speaker's post-'96 options if Dole lost. And if Dole won, Gingrich could function as the new Administration's chief policymaker, or so he reasoned. As Gingrich told Time in the fall of 1995, he saw the potential relationship between himself and Dole as replicating the World War II link between General George Marshall, the Army Chief of Staff who set the war's strategy...