Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...embodies this order, and thus serves as the figurehead of the underworld community. His unmistakable style is as much a function of his well-groomed physical authority and grace, reflecting a rigid moral code. Bob serves as an example to all around him, including his protege Polo (Daniel Cauchy), who strains to emulate him at every turn. Next to some of the violent, cynical figures that populate the American underworld film landscape. Bob almost appears as a typical French bourgeois moyen in his well-being and self-righteousness...
...promise to raise scores. But at least such misguided faith in scores has not taken in most educators and administrators who have the ultimate responsibility for trying to salvage something from the public education system. Faced with the task of resurrecting collapsed schools and motivating uneducated teachers to function again, educators for the most part have had the sense to grit their teeth and ignore the SAT scores, trusting that if the wheels start turning again more visible achievements will follow...
Nevertheless, Versage said that if the Investment Committee did not go along with the recommendations in the third-year evaluation, then he would be forced to admit that IPAC could no longer function effectively...
Could such a place have been built on memories of the dead alone? Hardly; the mind does not function that way. The past, well used, strikes a somber chord in everyone. The sound is both lovely and necessary, as it reminds us where we are and have been, gives us heroes and prototypes, our models and cautions. But the past contains the future as well; that is, whatever was once wished for and realized now resides in the past. One looks back in order to recollect one's hope, not only the defeat of one's hope. Otherwise...
...virtually all Soviet international telephone communications went out of service at week's end. The apparent reason, according to experts at American Telephone and Telegraph Co., was the breakdown of a Moscow computer that handles international calls. Although all telex lines and a few phone links continued to function sporadically, most Muscovites trying to reach an international operator were told brusquely to "please call later." Communications eventually were restored, but in rumor-rife Moscow, the event was unusual enough to prompt immediate speculation that a change of leadership, possibly involving ailing President Leonid Brezhnev, was in the works, even...