Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President also bothers many Congressmen, who feel that the legislative branch has already lost too much power to the executive. "I can't imagine a better argument against the proposal than that," retorted Virginia Republican Richard Poff, a onetime supporter of the amendment. "I think it is the function of the legislative branch to defy, when necessary, the executive, to resist soli darity with...
...secret that causes cancer. The most exciting, and to some the most frightening, prospect is the chemical and electrical treatment of the brain. Dr. David Krech, psychology professor at the University of California, believes that retarded infants will be diagnosed at birth, and chemical therapy will permit them to function as normal people. The memory loss accompanying senility will be eliminated...
This may be a rather naive form of hubris. But even the more cautious futurists are caught up in a renewed sense of human freedom. "The function of prediction," says Columbia's Daniel Bell, "is not, as often stated, to aid social control, but to widen the spheres of moral choice." And Bertrand de Jouvenel has suggested that various types of future should be portrayed on TV, allowing the public to vote in a referendum on "the future of your choice." The chief message of the futurists is that man is not trapped in an absurd fate but that...
...professors] willing to enter so intimately into a process whereby they in effect load the dice for and against the survival of their several students: And are they willing (and able) to function professionally in a situation wherein they hold life-and-death probability powers over their students?" he continued...
There is no doubt that combined revenues from the Mystic Bridge and Logan have enabled the entire operation to function without a drain on the taxpayer. But it is also true that the combined Authority has produced a very discouraging record for the port itself. The rate of gain in short tonnage has not increased appreciably since the Authority assumed control in 1959, and an even more depressing note is revealed in the number of ships visiting the port, which decreased by 361 ships from '59 to '64. The fact is simply that the MPA has not increased or even...