Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the point in your editorial on the ROTC program that no granting of academic credit is necessary to permit ROTC to carry out its recruiting function is well taken, this admission also states that your proposal for discrediting the program would serve little purpose other than soothing your sense of righteous indignation. As I will show, given this admission, your other arguments are trivial...
...space of a single night at the mythical Lincoln International Airport, nearly every imaginable man, machine or function goes wrong. One of the worst snowstorms in history has been raging over the airport for three days. The longest and widest runway is blocked by a mired Boeing 707. A traffic controller is suicidally depressed. And a Rome-bound flight lifts off with a man carrying a bomb in his briefcase. How Airport Manager Mel Bakersfeld and a score of other characters cope provides the suspense of this obvious but well-programmed novel. Among the nuggets Hailey might better have left...
...were also hired, of course, to teach. But at the inception of the program, when the Harvard people were in Cambridge and the Shaw people were in Raleigh, the tutors were regarded only in their objective function. Only when we arrived on campus did we become racial threats. Only then came the nagging realization that there was something in it for us. Why had we wanted to come? Shaw people could conceive of only two reasons: either we were brought by neurotic missionary impulses or, worse, we came out of cold sociological curiosity...
...international currency system, like any currency system, is grounded in confidence and mutual acceptability; the currency used must be freely convertible into real goods and services, "legal tender for all debts, public and private." The dollar and the pound sterling have served this function between nations since the Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944, which established the International Monetary Fund and the present system of semi-flexible exchange rates...
Mind like parachute-only function when open...