Word: function
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However, more distressing to those of us who have brought graduate degrees in economics, research, marketing and finance, as well as years of corporate experience, to our craft is the misunderstanding of the function of public relations reflected in your Essay. It is true that some so-called corporate public relations practitioners are employed principally as company spokesmen, much as the Government employs its ambassadors as phrasemakers rather than policy-shapers. But in its proper context, corporate public relations has a profound influence on corporate policies. When public relations fulfills this role, it is based not nearly so much...
...watchdog, Jiři Hendrych, rose and sputtered: "I have finally reached the end of my patience with you people." Later Hendrych stomped out when all the delegates endorsed Solzhenitsyn's stand and resolved that they would never again allow their work to serve a strictly "propagandistic function...
...hyperbole. The worse their humiliation, the more unbending they seem to become. A refusal to accept unpalatable reality can be a very human trait on which the Arabs have no monopoly; yet the Arabs carry it to dazzling extremes. What ails them? Can they overcome their condition and function successfully in today's world? Or are they really a case of arrested development, doomed for generations to the kind of emotional and political instability that makes the Middle East one of the world's danger zones...
...just like the one in his London town house. Says Palais General Manager Roger Boltz: "As long as there are people who want to live in a select and secluded environment or achieve visible social status-and this means until the end of mankind-places like ours have a function to fill. They will never disappear...
...Consultation on Church Union progresses, involving the formation of one church out of the Episcopal Church, the Disciples, the Methodist Church, the United Church of Christ, the United Presbyterian Church, and others, it will probably become necessary to draft a tenth Confession or even to reorganize the function and use of the Book as a whole...