Word: function
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kaysen stated that the "soulful" corporation represented "the industrial revolution applied to capitalism." He drew an analogy between the turn from a "learned handicraft to a rationalized technique" in the industrial revolution and the growing emphasis on the "professionalization of management function" replacing "intuitive management" in the modern corporation...
...devised that will educate certain students, but are created for that purpose, and when a plan is devised that will educate certain students better, no inherent good in the course system remains for them. Obviously even a greatly expanded program of courseless study could not destroy the department's function; the advanced placement program should be looked on as a supplementary means of better suiting undergraduate study to the individual, not as a contending educational ideology. If Advanced Placement were expanded to effective proportions it could be one of the most fruitful curricular advancements in many years...
Since the introduction of specific material made general examinations very similar to final course examinations, several professors feel the generals no longer have any useful function...
...sadder Thursday night salon but no less alcoholic is that of the Patriarch Justinian. Once defrocked for adultery and alcoholism, the 56-year-old Patriarch was appointed by the Russian Patriarch Alexei. Justinian's function: to help the Communists control Rumania's staunchly religious peasantry. Called in during one of the bearded Patriarch's vice-and-vodka loops, Dr. Cohen prescribed six months' psychoanalysis and electroshock therapy, but achieved no result. Says he: "The Patriarch's conflicts are insoluble...
...issue was Zik's handling of the funds of the African Continental Bank, which he controls. Last January a tribunal headed by Nigeria's Chief Justice found that Zik, in his function as Premier, had transferred public money, equivalent to one quarter of the 1955-56 revenue of the Eastern Region of Nigeria, to his own bank, thereby saving it from collapse. "Guilty of misconduct as a minister," declared the tribunal. Advised the far-off London Times: "He should resign and, in so far as it is possible, make restitution. He can then ask the people to give...