Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...insecticides "until cheap, safe and efficient substitute pesticides are produced and made easily available," made me wonder what would happen if insecticides worked too well. Hindsight might reveal that an insect species, after the last of its kind had been killed, was valuable or even necessary for some ecological function. What would we do then? Breed another similar species...
Most researchers have long believed that viruses play some crucial role in causing human cancers. The source and precise function of these viruses (tiny packets of nucleic acids and protein) in cancer are still obscure, and no one knows how to control them. Dramatic progress cannot be made until cancer viruses are clearly identified in humans, as has already been done in animals. Now that vital next step has apparently been taken...
...players were fined $10 for every pound in excess of what Shula determined was their "optimum performance level." When 250-lb. Running Back Larry Csonka was ordered to trim off 15 Ibs., he sputtered, "But I haven't been that light since high school." Replied Shula: "You will function better at that level." Csonka pared down...
...figures, in their blurred, spastic postures, relate to the work of early still photographers like Eadweard Muybridge, or art reproductions, movie stills, news flashes. Personality, existence itself, glints like a fish in dark water and is gone. Bacon is a singular draftsman, but his drawing has practically no descriptive function-it serves, instead, to tally a sum of distortions...
...short, the argument runs, the CRR will function, and students must accept it. The Faculty had made its irrevocable decision on how our lives are to be managed, and the best we can hope for is some small part in carrying out its will...