Word: function
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These extra Council gimmicks do get publicity and perhaps even bolster the prestige of its members but--more important--they hinder the proper function of the Council; to devote its efforts to pressuring various parts of the community in the name of College undergraduates...
Though the consultants will advise President Kennedy personally, their main function in the government will be carried out through agencies such as the one dealing with security headed by McGeorge Bundy...
Spinning Rabbits. The neuron's basic function is to transmit "nerve impulses" by high-speed electrochemical reactions. Hyden's team devised an ingenious way to find out what happens to nerve cells when they receive a stimulus. The scientists spun rabbits on a centrifuge, just fast enough to make them dizzy and cause the cells in the acoustic nerve and the vestibular apparatus of the inner ear (a center of balance) to stimulate the brain with a sense of distress. Then they painlessly killed the animals and analyzed the nerve cells...
Brainwasher on Tap. The next thing was to learn whether mental function can be chemically controlled. It can, said Dr. Hyden. Small doses of a new synthetic substance called tricyano-amino-propene ("triap") caused drastic changes in neuronal RNA and proteins in animals-and, according to preliminary studies...
...daily newspaper remains the only medium both big enough and fast enough to keep the public informed. The reason so few papers have lived up to their function (or perhaps one should properly call it their responsibility) is, as Lindstrom repeatedly notes, that journalism has come to be treated as a business, not as a profession. Last fall, at a CRIMSON dinner for editors of secondary school newspapers, the head of the Boston Associated Press bureau spoke on journalism as a career, referring to it always as the "news business." Journalism at its best is a profession, and an honorable...