Word: function
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Forced Out. His defenders regard Angleton as a casualty of the times. They believe that he was forced out because some important U.S. policymakers no longer hold counterintelligence an indispensable function and so strongly believe in the durability of detente that they are uncomfortable with a clandestine organization that persists in regarding the KGB as a serious threat. In this respect, Angleton's departure is reminiscent of the fate of a fictional counter-intelligence man, George Smiley, the sad hero of John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Fired during a staff shake...
...five-year economic projections, which starkly underscore the need for yet more stimulus. Though the worst of the tempest is probably over, there is no doubt that the CEA can use whatever help new members can bring. Under the Employment Act of 1946, which created the Council, its chief function is to advise the President on how best to hold down unemployment...
...Center for Urban Studies willingness to perform a liaison function does not imply approval or disapproval of the actions of the Boston School Committee or the Boston School Department," Edmonds said yesterday...
...simply cannot accept the assumption that the woman-created, woman-worked institutions of Radcliffe must or should be abandoned in exchange for the increase in women students. They will remain as important to us in the future as they have been in the past. Radcliffe's role is a function of the times. It was created originally to assert that women's education was valid--indeed, important. It must now be supported as an assertion of the importance of our experience as women. That our history is different from that of men is unquestionable; that the history and traditions...
...there are ethnic divisions in it between Jewish mobsters in Miami Beach and Italian ones in Las Vegas; that the distaff side of the family is protected from the unpleasant side of the business; that everyone--including the Godfather--lives in constant danger of sudden death; that the protective function of the Sicilian mafia was not wholly lost in America. But he introduces some new themes as well: the struggle for legitimacy (Michael opens himself up to five counts of perjury by denying charges rather than take the fifth); the intimate connection with "legitimate" business ("United Telephone and Telegraph...