Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest of the songs are all pretty usual country-rock and are all well-done, especially "Portland Woman" and "Glendale Train." If the album has one general failing, it is that the songs are not consistently top caliber, and tend to fall into types. This, however, seems an inevitable function of country sound influence...
McGovern's attitude towards the U.N. is also inconsistent. Pessimistic about the effectiveness of the U.N. as a peace-keeper he says, about the Middle East dilemma, "I think we can safely rule out U.N. assistance in peace keeping. It is difficult for the U.N. to function when the Arab votes can lock its action...
...oppotunity. To avoid that danger, Justices will have to provide a creative, deeply reasoned philosophy of judicial restraint in the tradition of Justices Frankfurter and Louis Brandeis. It will be imperative that they explain clearly and compellingly the theory government that is leading them to change the court's function. That is why the President's 23rd-hour decision to step up from mediocrity in his court choices was such a profound relief to all who care about...
...Caroline Institute where the Nobel Prize Committee was voting. After a while, the Swede suddenly turned from the telephone and gave Sutherland the news: he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for his long study of hormones, the chemical substances that regulate virtually every body function...
...great puzzle, and it keeps turning cancerous in his hands. At the height of his career, Jesse is an important Chicago neurosurgeon. Delivering a learned paper on "Retrograde Amnesia," he notes that in certain brain injuries recent memories are more easily extinguished than distant memories. "Is it a function of the normal brain," he asks, "to hold the present cheaply and to honor only the distant past...