Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Labor unions are the most powerful institutional force on the left in America today. Powerful labor support for civil rights legislation and the Haynsworth and Carswell defeats indicate an openness for reform action. Labor support for the Indochina war is more a function of loyalty to labor's dying sons than it is support for an imperialistic foreign policy. McGeorge Bundy and Lyndon Johnson started the war, not Walter Reuther or George Meany...
...Council's use of the school building would, in effect, "contribute space free of charge to political candidates and thereby constitute an indirect campaign contribution" by city employees. Further, said Cronin, "Making available public space in a public building is to use such space for a non-municipal function, and worse, a political function." Even though all candidates were invited, he refused to consider the meeting an educational...
...among those most interested in getting more people to register. However, the Cambridge Election Commission has acted, on the whole, as if its role was to discourage people from taking legitimate political action. All in all, the Election Commission has acted only to discredit itself and its ostensible function. The desire of the Commission to see fewer rather than more voters registered makes a mockery of the laws it claims to uphold...
...prevalent after day seven." As the tests continued, the frenzied activity of the rats began to culminate in seizures, convulsions and, in some cases, death. Autopsies revealed that the exposed rats had suffered a loss of brain protein and RNA, both of which play an important role in brain function. These changes occurred from 28 to 91 days after the first of the daily doses of marijuana...
...sophomore, and an envelope with an animal engraved on the back slips under your door during one night early in October, and you like brandy, cigars, and touch football, start looking for your striped tie. The envelope is an invitation to a club "punching" function, and it means that you are one of the approximately 200 members of your class being considered by a club. If you are a regular guy, you will be wined and dined by a variety of clubs for about two months, at which point you can join one, provided you don't make...