Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Instead, education should set the standards for a society. The reforms recommended by the National Commission on Excellence in Education can help youngsters who have the potential to be educated. However, the proposals cannot compensate for role models that are lacking in the home. Education should follow its traditional function and resist social experimentation...
Midnight was approaching. Republican Paul Trible of Virginia and Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont were in black tie, restlessly unable to attend a social function. Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, 74, decided to go home and go to bed. Howard Baker in effect threw in the towel. He asked the Senate to reconsider the Gorton compromise. "I did not support it, and I do not support it," he said. "I don't like what I am doing." But Baker argued that the Senate must try to pass some resolution and then fight out the issue in conference committee meetings with...
...raise the stakes as high as they liked. The card sense that poker requires is not especially rarefied; the limit chiselers at the other Vegas casinos know as much about probabilities as the sportsmen at Binion's. What distinguishes the heavyweights is that broke or flush, they can function at financial altitudes that paralyze everyone else. "The money freezes you up, and you become tight-weak," one contestant in formed Alvarez, describing his introduction to the major leagues. His colleagues agree. "If money is your god, you can for get no-limit poker, because it's going...
...fact ordinarily have a significant effect on the outcome. I am unable to offer non-judgement support to a student with a complaint against a faculty member. There is an understood more clearly. As the "hearing officer" of fact-finder at the first step of the process my function is in some ways analogous to that of a police officer in, let us say a rape case...
...teens Lucas did what most other boys did in Modesto: cruised the streets. Nearly killed when he crashed his Fiat into a walnut tree, he missed his high school graduation and took four months to recuperate. When he was able to function again, he attended Modesto Junior College for two years, then went to the film school of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. At U.S.C., Lucas finally came into his own. "He played with the concepts, he was free, he said we can do anything," says Classmate John Milius, director of Conan the Barbarian. "In those days...