Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assume it is his job to do what he can to temper it. The practical solution would seem to be to attend the briefings, regard them as a reportorial starting point, then go out and crosscheck. Certainly, that is the way the best correspondents in Viet Nam function...
...much of a group of mysterious brain chemicals called amines, in particular, one known as serotonin. The energizers (there are several on the prescription list, under such trade names as Marplan, Nardil, Niamid, Parnate) are supposed to block the enzyme and thus allow the serotonin to fulfill its normal function...
...education at the precollege level. Explained the Ordinance: "Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged." Yet the U.S. Constitution, drafted the same year, said nothing at all about education, reserving that function to the states-which assumed the task so conscientiously that, even without federal direction, the uniquely American drive toward universal education soon became a key strength of the nation. In fact, education became almost synonymous with democracy...
Necessary Mystery. When the U.S. team of architects, M.I.T.-trained Armand Bartos and Viennese-born Frederick Kiesler were approached by the Israeli government and asked to build a shrine for the scrolls, they knew that a boxlike building could fulfill the function. But they were struck by the historic coincidence in 1947 of the discovery of the 2,000-year-old scrolls in the Essene-sect caves with the re-emergence of the state of Israel. Deciding that the twin events cried out for symbolic representation, they found their guideline in the mystery that man from time immemorial has associated...
...editorial also misinterpreted the function of the office, Rosenthal charged. Vorenberg's staff has no concern, with giving advice or answering personal appeals for legal counsel, as the article implied...