Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alone cannot possibly produce solutions. As currently planned, its function is to be a kind of "Precept Corps"-sending small groups of trained volunteers into troubled areas at the request of local people and working under their orders. By example, the volunteers are supposed to spur greater local action-soon working themselves out of a job and moving on to another trouble spot...
...physical helplessness and speechlessness that he has a powerful motive to do the repetitive exercises that will help him to recover. The older the patient, usually, the less powerful this motive. How much of his improvement over a period of months is due to a partial resumption of function by damaged but not quite dead brain cells, and how much is due to other parts of the brain taking over the lost functions, is not known. The number of detailed differences between individual cases is so nearly infinite, says New York University's Professor Clark Randt, that medical science...
...hilly Hong Kong, prestige is often a function of height: the socially elect live on "the Peak." and down below, in the central business district, a company's importance is apt to be judged by how tall its headquarters building is. Latest entrant in Hong Kong's corporate prestige race is the Hang Seng (Eternal Growth) Bank, which last week opened a 22-story building that is even taller than the Peking-controlled Bank of China-which was deliberately built a few feet higher than the British-run Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank. Resplendent with Venetian mosaics and bulletproof...
...lend more than equivocal support to U Thant's campaign. Considered in any light, the U.N. mission was bound to raise welts on British backs, and so the Foreign Secretary also clung nervously to possible alternatives. In the shadow of Lord Home's strikingly Gaullist pronouncements on the proper function of the U.N. lay two profound fears: that the new federation would injure British financial interests in Katanga, and that the casques bleus would march firmly into any settlement of the touchy Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland...
Theology of Space. Christian theologians insist that there is no basic conflict between religion and science?and a lot of scientists agree. They are convinced that if the Christian faith managed to assimilate Darwin there are few other scientific discoveries it cannot handle. Science's function is to describe the nature and phenomena of life?and leave the description of its purpose to religion. Says the University of California's Nobel-prizewinning Chemist Willard Libby: "Science and religion are not in conflict, nor are they in full cooperation. They are fulfilling very different needs...