Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Serious operations may leave psychological scars. Feelings of rage are common in women who have undergone hysterectomies; depression is understandably frequent among those who lose a breast because of cancer. Open-heart surgery, reports Kimball, produces its own constellation of symptoms: temporary loss of memory and intellectual function, delusions and even life-threatening depression...
...there is an excess of textiles or fertilizers in Portugal, merchants in the colonies must buy them even if comparable foreign-made products are cheaper and better. This arrangement allows an inefficient factory in Portugal to function and even prospet. Without the captive colonial market, the products wouldn't be sold...
...UNUSUALLY important function of the Cambridge City Council is the appointment of a City Manager, because that official is most responsible for the city's day-to-day and long-range welfare. Five City Councillors were elected last November on a platform that demanded the replacement of incumbent Manager John H. Corcoran by a more innovative reform minded administrator...
...propose to begin by attacking the oversize bureaucracy, the swellen budgets of our regulatory agencies, our exorbitant welfare expenditures, and go on from there," his brochure reads. "The primary function of government is to protect and guarantee the basic rights which belong to all human beings...
...specialist has his function...