Word: function
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Happe added that the original function of the church 350 years ago is a place where Puritans could worship freely, is very similar to its function today. "The church emphasizes freedom," he said...
Perhaps the threatening undertones of the movement are a function of its intensity; alone and in coalition the right to lifers have taken special interest politics to its illogical extreme. In contrast with other single issue groups the anti-abortion activists have not been content merely with lobbying. These organizations forthrightly undertook a program to pack Congress with politicians not only sympathetic to, but also actively involved in the right to life movement. In 1976, Ellen McCormack ran for President of the United States on the abortion issue...
...former constitutional-law professor, hopes instead to forge an image of moderate pragmatism. Thus far, his economic policies amount to vague endorsements of price controls and increased exports. After his nomination, he said, more concretely: "The armed forces will be subordinated to political power and be assigned their specific function, the defense of the country...
...around in such a car, like a Mafia don in his land yacht, that gave some reviewers eczema. It was the way that he wrote about it, with such a blithe air of entitlement. No right-wing intellectual on the go, Buckley seemed to suggest, should be asked to function without this minimal convenience, for God's sake...
Park says that if the University decided that the ACSR really does function best by making recommendations on a case-by-case basis, it should consider developing a second body specifically charged with discussing the broader issues of investment policy. This is a suggestion that has not been publicly made before, and members of the ACSR say that it would needlessly remove from them a task they are now performing well. Walter J. Salmon, the ACSR's outgoing chairman, says that the ACSR no longer needs to continually treat the same recurring issues one case at a time, but would...