Word: function
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...George McGovern's tax proposals may be very good in a number of ways, because they are designed to make taxes more equitable. It is a well-known fact, however, that colleges and universities, for example, cannot function on tuition alone. If, indeed, incomes above $50,000 and inheritances were to be taxed as severely as McGovern suggests, who could actually afford to endow universities? Would financing have to be turned over to the Government in this area also? Would this not necessitate converting to a system in which only select students may attend college? Is this equitable...
...really bored and in a way I feel useless just sitting around." Pankhurst said. Southwick, while aware of the tedium problem, explained it as "a function of people not knowing how to relax." "Now that the Convention is underway, the tedium will diminish pretty rapidly," he said
...midst of betting windows and grandstand seats, displaced residents were given temporary shelter and emergency first aid before being scattered out to Civil Defense refuges and hospitals around Luzerne County. Once emergency operations were switched to the Wilkes-Barre-Scranton Airport the track reverted to its former function and within a week after the disaster ponies were again trotting where weary refugees had sought shelter...
CERTAINLY members of the press do not constitute any elite class which should be granted special privileges before the Constitution. But the function of a free press, as outlined in the Constitution, demands that the privilege of confidentiality be bestowed upon the press and its functionaries, reporters. It is a right of profession: just as, in most states, a priest does not have to breach the contract of confession, and a lawyer is protected in discussions with a client accused of a felony, so should a reporter be able to use the guarantee of confidentiality to flush out information which...
...does Lewis Hoaglund, the conglomerate tycoon who likes to fire people as brutally as possible, have a huge machine in his backyard that has no function except to clank and sputter...