Word: function
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...equally sound. Favoring constitutional reform, Volpe supports Referendum #5 on the November 3 ballot, a measure which would streamline the executive by stripping the Governor's Council of statutory powers. The Council, which now passes on all gubernatorial appointments, is a hurdle to firm executive leadership, and its ratifying function invites unethical pressures, both political and financial. Volpe also supports coterminous 4-year terms for the Governor and his agency heads. All these measures would limit opportunities for corruption by increasing the power of the Governor, who would be directly and solely...
...Bonus for Trust. The clinic is sometimes criticized on the grounds that it practices only what is already known in medicine and adds little to the sum of knowledge through research. This is partly true, because Mayo's formerly saw its primary function as the application of research to practice. Today it is making a concerted effort to step up research. There are complaints, too, that fees are high. But the truth is that they run about the same as in any good medical center for the same services. All the doctors are on salary, and they would...
There is one mission which the university serves but which, on the whole, has been insufficiently appreciated in higher education; this might be called the research and development function of higher education itself. The guilds are oriented to their substantive subject matters and hardly at all to the questions as to how they are taught and certainly not to the institutions or institutes through which they are taught. In this process, the multiversity is becoming like Big Steel, though hopefully with greater flexibility
...putting primary emphasis on breadth become apparent. If the basic Gen Ed course is to give the student the ability to speak and work in one of four broad areas of knowledge, Natural Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Historical Studies (including History and Government), and Humanities, it follows that the primary function of the total Gen Ed program is to give students exposure to all four broad areas...
...Catherine's College at Oxford, which accepted its first students two years ago although it is still being completed. The college was designed by Danish Architect Arne Jacobsen, 62, creator of Copenhagen's glass-packaged Royal Hotel, who believes that "economy plus function equals style." St. Catherine's master, Historian Alan Bullock, wanted someone who would not be affected by Oxford's "almost suffocating feeling of being unable to escape from the past." Jacobsen's escape could hardly be more complete...