Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...departures from the country. The committee operated under the patronage and protection of Raul Cardinal Silva Henriquez, the Archbishop of Santiago, who maintains a brisk and good-humored air despite the travails of his flock and his own delicate position. It seemed something of a miracle the committee could function at all, and Pinochet has asked the cardinal to disband it, alleging that it served Communist interests. The cardinal said he would comply but warned that the closing down of the committee would create more problems for Chile than it solved...
...like an economy tourist on a city-a-day vacation. She gloats over the limousines that pick her up at every airport ("It's the only way to travel.") and is haunted by the fear that another woman might be wearing the same dress as she at a political function...
...constant superficial moral quandary. Her three biggest dilemmas are womens' liberation, abuse of taxpayers' monies, and whether or not her husband did anything wrong. Her answers to all three are shifty. Every time she mentions that she assumed a "traditional female function," (preparing hors d'oeuvres for her husband's business associates) she adds, as an after thought, a "maybe I shouldn't be this way" clause, but always resolves it with that catch-all "but I am." She says she never realized she and her husband were misusing taxpayers' dollars (all those limos) until after he testified before...
...student boycott is not enough, however, to cure the ills of the CRR, since the committee continues to exist and function without student representation. Last spring, for example, the CRR ruled on the cases of six students involved in the DuBois Institute Student Coalition's May sit-in outside President Bok's office. The students, who should have been found innocent, were declared guilty of interfering in the operation of the University and had letters of reprimand placed in their files as punishment...
...Vikings head into the coldest part of the season, though, the looming question is how well they can function in the heat. This year's Super Bowl will be played in Miami. For the moment, the team is not worried about that. Says Grant, whose string of coaching cliches gets steadily longer: "We only work from one week to the next...