Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This conservative function of the unit system is not apparent yet, Champion said, and its possible existence has not affected the level of donations...
...work ethic will never go out of style. The whole aim of life is to have a function that you can work at every waking hour. The work ethic is not in trouble. But working for money just might be, because money alone has become the measure of purpose...
...members of the other nation, the poor, were a majority while today they are not; the difference is vast. Nevertheless, a Disraeli could supply a profound corrective to conservative thought in America: a sense that everyone is in it together, that no one class or group can function properly unless all do. Until Richard Nixon does that, he remains only half a Disraeli. The historical portrait deserves to be completed...
...doctors puts it, "the asylum is 'society in miniature.'" From his first boisterous appearance, crashing in as a recent "committal" from the state prison farm, to when he lies stretched out under a sheet, a dead "Vegetable," McMurphy is determined to prove that he can function in this society as well as in any other. His roles are many: "bull-goose loony," "Jesus Q. Christ," father figure, and, for Kesey's autobiographical purposes, perhaps, Chief among his Merry Pranksters. He continues to function, all right, but can be survive in this mad microcosm that supposedly reflects the outside world? This...
Dunlop's proposals included ideas to hand the function of the CRR over to the Administration Board and form a body of legal experts to decide which cases should be brought before the discipline committee...