Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mikuriya was especially critical of the involvement of the federal government in poisoning marijuana--and American citizens--with the herbicide paraquat. Instead he recommended limiting the government to regulating "the purity and freedom from contaminants, which is an appropriate function of government...
...added that many who signed postcards knew little about the national status of abortion rights, and that the educational function of the tabling proved effective...
During the past 15 years, a vigorous body of scholarship in humanities, social sciences and life sciences has begun to illuminate the political, cultural, economic, and social roles of women, to assess the contributions of women to society and culture, and to analyze the function of gender in a wide spectrum of societies and cultures. Under the broad rubric of Women's Studies, that scholarship has both produced new knowledge and revised our understanding of established information and modes of thought Scholars have tapped neglected resources that reveal women's experiences, and have brought to the forefront often forgotten texts...
...life of its own, recognized as a significant academic development. But institutions commitment to and support of Women's Studies continues to be connected to political or ideological issues in that support for Women's Studies is seen as recognition of the significance and importance of women. This symbolic function is particularly important in highly prestigious, co-educational universities where the status of women has not been unproblematic...
...historical evidence is unconvincing. At the time of the signing of SALT I in 1972, U.S. defense spending was in decline, but that was a function of disillusionment with the war in Viet Nam. During the debate over SALT II in 1979, there was a bipartisan consensus for more, not less, defense spending...