Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life-span in all three classes varies as a function of the cities' economic activity at a given time--in periods of business expansion, the life-spans are shortened as firms rapidly become obsolescent: in periods of business contraction, the life-spans are lengthened. Forrester is careful to include other qualifications of this sort in the computer model...
...Soviet secret police, of course, have a dual function. At home they were never busier than during the Stalin era, when they organized and executed the purges and ran the labor camps. Today the KGB is headed by Yuri Andropov, 57, a Brezhnev Protégé who is clearly subordinate to the political arm of the party. A powerfully built man over 6 ft. tall, Andropov proved his ruthlessness in Hungary as ambassador at the time of the 1956 uprising. It was he who encouraged a delegation of Hungarians to meet with top Soviet officers in Budapest to talk about...
...bill stalled, the military had to rely on voluntary enlistments and re-enlistments. Although, ironically, recruiting figures rose over the summer months, the Pentagon insisted that it could not function much longer without draftees. Finally the White House began a massive lobbying campaign, with President Nixon and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird applying the pressure. They avoided argument on the Mansfield amendment and on military pay increases that are designed eventually to make an all-volunteer army possible...
...Environmental Protection Agency, the policing function has been separated from development. If EPA had the power to make things happen, along with its policing power, it could be more effective...
Rabbi Riskin is a charismatic speaker, flexing his voice like a Bible Belt preacher, punctuating his ideas with his hands. He is also a widely respected Talmudic scholar who stresses that the most important function of the synagogue is to be a Bet Midrash-a "house of study." More than 250 people regularly jam his weekly class on Jewish Law and its application to such modern problems as contraception, prison reform and war. But concern, not relevance, is probably the ultimate key to Riskin's appeal. "The ministry must create a community of people whom the rabbi cares about...