Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seminars were started in the fall to strengthen the educational function of the Houses and to offer non-Honors and science majors small-group instruction similar to tutorials...
...House Rules Committee-and in its chairman, if he has enough committee votes behind him. Over the years the committee's frequent roadblocks have exasperated and angered Presidents and Congressmen bent on getting programs enacted, but its powers have survived undipped because Rules performs an indispensable function in the lawmaking process. Essentially, the Rules Committee serves as the House's traffic-control device, as necessary as traffic lights at big-city intersections. The House has 437 members, who among them introduce several thousand bills every year. Under an old House rule, every member has a theoretical right...
While viewers whose taste buds function even moderately well are finding this year's television diet more dyspepsiant than ever, last week's Nielsen ratings (for the two weeks ending Dec. 4) reported a total listenership of nearly 26 million homes per minute, granted all three networks the first simultaneous rise in years. CBS, with a 4% increase in audience size over the same period last season, retained its lead with a nighttime Nielsen of 20.1. ABC, registering an impressive 15% gain, nearly closed the gap with a 19.2 rating. NBC, Huntley-Brinkleymanship and all, dropped into third...
...Recent work has shown," he says, "that malignant cells that develop after infection by a virus do not necessarily continue to hold the virus. They lose the virus but continue to grow, and can pass cells to other animals without the virus' being present. It looks as if the function of the virus is to start the cell going wrong. Then it can continue to go wrong by itself." This may happen in human cancers, too, and since viruses carry only small packets of genetic material, improved molecular biology may prevent them from starting cancers, or may even reform...
Although giving financial aid is its chief function, the Harvard-Yenching Institute also attempts other methods of assistance. Every year fourteen professors from East Asian universities are brought to Harvard for a year or more of study, Reischauer noted...