Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...denied that the Senate's rejection of Nixon's two nominees represented discrimination against Southern candidates. "Right now Justice [Hugo L.] Black is the only Southerner on the Court and he certainly does not fulfill the function the President foresees for his nominee...
...MIRVs as much as an agreement that limits ABMs. The Soviet Union presently leads in the deployment of ABMs, though few experts consider its 64-silo Galosh system around Moscow a genuine threat to U.S. retaliatory power. The Russians acknowledged during the preliminary negotiations that ABMs, though defensive in function, are tied to the question of mutual deterrence and should therefore be included in SALT discussions. U.S. negotiators considered that admission an important diplomatic step...
...trial, the disruptions had taken on an entirely different tone. The book's most important function may be in showing the progression from the Yippic outbursts of the first few days to the bitter protests of all the defendants at the end of the trial...
...Britain, the minister himself takes on this judicial function and polices his own department. Though he was once responsible to Parliament for his conduct, the party system ended that. Only the remote possibility that he would harm the party's success in the next general claxon would deter his abuses...
Recently, graduate students, undergraduate students, officers, and faculty of Harvard University formed the Graduate Student Homophile Association. The primary aim of GSHA is to gain acceptance of homosexuals by society as positively valued Individuals. In this respect, GSHA functions in several capacities. First, GSHA is attempting to promote an understanding of the homosexual and of homosexuality by sponsoring educational activities, such as lectures, research, discussions, and dialog with groups in the academic and local communities, which are designed to change and correct existing attitudes toward homosexuality. GSHA has initially been involved in speaking engagements at universities and churches. The response...