Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Powell: In every system, there is a contest between the bureaucracy and the top leader...I think Andropov is better informed [than Mr. Brezhnev]. According to our intelligence people, in his final years. Mr. Brezhnev apparently was only able to function four hours a day. That didn't give him much control over himself, much less over the bureaucracy...
...Most elected officials have very shorttern horizons. Their proper function is to help their community get through to the nest election with minimal conflict." Downs said
...vivid description of Wilson's childlike delight when, after a two-year effort, he managed to sneak an M-16 into Libya. Wilson, said Goulding, "was very, very happy, literally roaring with laughter," as he handed the rifle to a Libyan official, who gave it "a full-function test out of the window of his office, a full clip of 30 rounds...
...revert to China. (Treaties signed in 1841 and 1860 give Britain ownership of the remaining 34 sq. mi.-Hong Kong island and portions of Kowloon-" in perpetuity.") Although an arrangement short of total reversion may eventually be worked out between London and Peking, permitting Hong Kong to continue to function as it does now, some fear that China will insist on full sovereignty. That could mean the end of Hong Kong's capitalistic ways. Reflecting such worries, share prices on the Hong Kong exchange have dropped 21.5% since September, and the value of the Hong Kong dollar has slumped...
...know the story, the less they'll look at the picture." Likewise, the paintings are full of references to other art, usually of a rather arcane sort. But they seem casually, even inattentively deployed, coming out not as formal homages to this or that master but as a function of temperament. Like Bonnard, whose work he reveres, Hodgkin is a fidgety peeper into secular paradises and controllable realms of pleasure. But as befits a painter who makes no bones about his belief in the continuity of past and present, part of the pleasure lies in the conversation between...