Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Both of us were asked to come to University Hall quite separately," John Fox says. "In our responsibilities we don't function as a couple...
...general, third party candidates can serve an important function in a two-party electoral system. For one thing, third parties often address issues that other two parties won't. In 1992, H. Ross Perot attacked both Republicans and Democrats for their refusal to discuss the nation's burgeoning budget deficit...
...scandals are only tangentially about what Russia might have stolen from the West. Most of the billions looted or laundered belonged to Russia. The real victims have been the millions of Russian workers and pensioners who are often paid late by a government without the cash to function. The most chilling consequence of that for Americans is not financial but psychological. When Russia repudiated communism in 1991, Western values enjoyed immense admiration and influence. That has vanished as millions of Russians have learned to equate reform with corruption and free markets with theft and misery. The hostility...
...drinks he or she thinks it's okay to consume. The measures the College Alcohol study uses to define binge drinking--five drinks in a row for men and four for women--are scoffed at by binge drinkers: "What's five drinks, I can drink ten and still function...
...such a point seems more important than legalities. Additionally grafitti is also a sign of anger, resentment, and a sort of liberation in defying society's laws. The creation of graffiti is as much a political statement as a physical act. The works cannot be considered independent of their function as social protest. In the eyes of the critic, the fact that grafitti is ultimately grounded in social reality underlines its importance as part of society's visual culture, while also underlining the irony of displaying grafitti to the gentrified, museum-going world...