Word: function
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Finally, it asks that $200 be allotted in the Physical Training Budget to subsidize club sports. "Since the clubs perform a worthwhile function as part of the PT program in offering specialized instruction, they should be given some small financial aid from the PT program," the report suggests...
Wennerström's chief function was to supply Moscow with information on technological advances in a variety of fields. He traveled freely to industrial plants to inspect production and facilities and, because he represented a neutral nation and frequently had been introduced "from the top by the highest chief," was almost never asked for verification of his security clearance. He passed most of his information on to his contact by means of microfilm, which he transferred with a hearty handshake wherever the two had agreed to meet. He and his Soviet contact even practiced the handshake...
Though gratified by the Nobel Committee's recognition of his work. Bloch feels that awards of any sort are irrelevant to science. "I have my doubts that awards serve any function at all--and I have been saying this for many years." By neglecting deserving workers, Bloch says, "Awards create as much unhappiness as happiness, and this is just unnecessary. Certainly the quality of research being done today is no better for the existence of awards...
...telephone interview last night, Howe said that he was "extremely hopeful" that HUAC would be abolished. "The time has come," he said, "for Congress to face up to the question of whether the committee serves any useful purpose. If it ever had a function, that time has long since passed...
Listings of available jobs and of students with entertainment skills who are seeking work, a service of the defunct agency, will be transferred to the Student Employment Office. Burke pointed out that the Office had always shared this function with the agency and maintained its listings anyway...