Word: function
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McDermott, who is also professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Surgery for the Harvard Services at BCH, added that the University has taken its share of responsibility for the status of the hospital. "The administrative structure of the hospital and the city officials should function as a unit bringing in the universities, as they have, as copartners," he said...
...which tourists and the Indians themselves ignore or miss. He observes "the ceremonial washing of the genitals in public before prayers." He ponders four sweepers whose ritual effort only makes a hotel staircase dirtier than before "They are not required to clean. That is a subsidiary part of their function, which is to be sweepers, degraded beings." In Gorakhpur his critical gaze falls on the bazaar: "The sweetshops are required to have glass cases; the cases accordingly stand, quite empty, next to the heaps of exposed sweets." Naipaul's candid view of India is attenuated, unfortunately, by a slightly...
...hate is the welfare system: "The tragedy of relief is that it has taken away from people the drive to work. I deplore a system that regards the indiscriminate handing out of checks as its prime function, that subsidizes the lazy and immoral home with the tax payer's dollar." To stem Philadelphia's juvenile crime (up 27% last year), Judge Stout, who is married but childless, advocates taking children away from relief homes and raising them in public dormitories where they can be urged to buckle down to schoolwork...
Addressing the Winthrop House Forum, Frank P. Graham explained that U.N. intervention in Israel and the Congo was ordered by the General Assembly and not by the Security Council. The U.N. Charter delegates this function only to the Security Council, he said...
...argue that it is not the function of the marchers to produce a good policy, that it is only necessary for them to protest an evil one. Yet if one intends to take policy decisions out of Bundy's hands and return them to the people, then the people must be prepared with solutions to the policy problems. Some of the peace groups believe the answer in Vietnam is as clearcut as their slogans. But before adopting such solutions, it is worth trying to understand entirely the policy against which they are rebelling...