Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard violate the public trust? Certainly not, answers Harvard's financial vice president, Thomas O'Brien, who claims that the medical school owes no more than $1,400. "The situation is based on the Government's misunderstanding of how universities function," he says. "It has reduced what once was a partnership to a purchaser-supplier relationship." Record-keeping practices are decentralized at Harvard, as they are in most academic institutions. Accounting is further complicated by the fact that most grants involve several departments...
...duty, Blaney says, "having my freedom and being able to use my training is something I really enjoy." More than making a risky arrest, she explains her function "as part of a helping agency" is the most rewarding part of the job. "You feel really good when you get off the shift because you helped someone in a medical emergency or something. I don't think arresting someone makes me particularly happy...
Bainton's function is manufacturing, and he writers, "When I came back (from the navy), I thought that my talent, education, and background would probably be more suited to sales than a manufacturing. "So far, so goal-oriented. But he continues, "After interviewing with a number of people in the industry, I became convinced that I could make a greater impact on a corporation through the manufacturing function because few people with my kind of education and skills were involved in the area...
That will also surprise anyone who grew up believing that selling yourself is quit a different function altogether. But the corporate world is full of surprises. For one, Bainton eventually sorted things out enough to become executive vice president and operating officer of the Continental Group And just the other day, a Literature concentrator it Harvard put down his copy of Career Insights and booked passage to the South American jungle...
Psychologists suggest that the killer is a "borderline" personality, someone who can function nearly normally in the day-to-day world. Like John Hinckley, who was also described as "borderline," the Tylenol killer can appear outwardly conventional. He may undergo transient psychosis intermixed with healthy intervals. Herbert Quay, professor of psychology at the University of Miami, notes chillingly: "My guess is that there are people around the killer right now who think he or she is odd, but not a threat to their lives...