Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nine-member committee, composed of three student advisors, three faculty members and three staff members, will function mainly as a source of information for the complainants. But if individual grievances are not resolved informally, the board will help forward complaints to an established university committee...
...immediately began of function as businessmen. They subcontracted classmates and friend who programmed games. Kept books and typed. And they hired someone to pick up finished programs and run other errands-they were still too young to drive...
School officials also rationalize warrantless searches with the demands for discipline in the classroom. Certainly schools can't function well with satanic sacrifices in every hallway and a not in every classroom. But it's quite hard to see how the mere presence of a few reefers in a girl's purse or some speed in a a closed locker will prevent old Mr. Walker from waxing eloquent about "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner...
...After the broadcast, ABC will put on a special 45-min. edition of Viewpoint, anchored by Ted Koppel. The show, intended as both a kind of emotional decompression chamber for viewers and a debating platform between friends and foes of the freeze, has an additional, and certainly not accidental, function. It gives The Day After the weight of a major news event...
...legend ever precedes them, were responsible for the decimation of the caribou herds of the tundra and offer a justification for lupine slaughter. Mowat found, in stead, that man was the predator, that the wolves, besides being agreeable and intelligent in their domestic ways, performed an invaluable Darwinian function in selecting out the unfit deer. All this Ballard shows in images of great but distinctly unsentimental beauty, stressing the contrast between the blundering ways of man and the sometimes harsh, sometimes subtle efficiency with which a natural environment functions when left to its own devices. As the Mowat character, Charles...