Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...population of 200,000.000 just isn't that many-why worry about them? But you can look at it another way: this country is relying on fewer than 100,000 men to produce the raw resource for the steel and electric power without which the United States wouldn't function for five minutes. When you look at it that way, the rest of us owe a lot to the coal miner. Pretty important man. Couldn't get along without...
...agree that MIT is primarily concerned with education and research. But it has secondary roles which it must perform responsibly. For example. MIT is an employer-of professors, secretaries, janitors. Surely MIT could not say that since being an employer is not its primary function it is free to discriminate in hiring or pay abnormally low wages. Similarly. MIT is a shareholder, and even though this is a secondary role for the university, the university must behave responsibly. It must vote its share in the public interest...
...basic function of that trial was to test the right to demonstrate-which is the most important right in a country moving toward fascism," he said. But because of the disruptions of the white Conspirators, "that issue was entirely lost in the trial...
...Laurence H. Tribe, assistant professor of Law, disagreed saying, "The limited function courts perceive for themselves preclude any significant action on the judicial level...
...more, too, and seemed much more confident when speaking. One of the first things that strikes you when you visit a Scientology center is the smiling good cheer, friendliness, and poise of the people. Something works-whether it's the techniques, the power of positive thinking, or simply a function of investing so much time and money in a project that you become determined to succeed, only Scientologists know...