Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beyond these rudiments of organization, the program has relied almost entirely on the improvisation of the associates, and has been shaped by each individual's idea of his function...
...human rights rather than church discipline, deal not only with the canon-law code but with basic constitutional problems of the church. Arguing that the church should incorporate more of today's democratic ideals in its structure, they urge a more distinct separation of executive, legislative and judicial functions. Under the present code, explained Jesuit Ladislas Orsy of Catholic University, there is a certain "imbalance" in church government: in practice, the offices of the Roman Curia both plan church regulations and enforce them. A wiser mode of government would be to have the law-creating function carried...
...chart. The doctor noted with equanimity that the thin red line passing through the columns of the chart was reporting normal amounts of calcium, albumin and cholesterol in his blood. Then the pen came to the last column, cryptically marked S.G.O.T. (serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase-an index of liver function). As the red line jumped to the top of the chart, above the 250 mark, the doctor exclaimed, "My God!" It was his first intimation that he was a victim of hepatitis...
...core content" of what it calls "family" rather than "primary" medicine. The academy's leaders urged its members to "divorce themselves from the present and think in terms of the future," when the general practitioner turned family physician will be "a specialist in terms of the function he performs, not a specialist who treats only certain diseases or parts of the human body." The new family physician, said the academy, will see "illness and disease not only as biologic phenomena but as a possible outgrowth of emotional and environmental problems. Family medicine is a specialty in breadth rather than...
...were usually tired in conception but snazzy in production. The songs were of the "here we are telling you what we are" variety in which the lyrics only say what the costuming and choreography are saying better. Thus the show opens with each of the machine parts describing her function in song and mime. Then everybody, of course, sings their various themes ensemble. And we're left with exactly the same impression we had when the curtain opened (except perhaps for a momentary lingering of the movements assigned to the ball-bearings...