Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rerun," you better also make room for Danny, Danny Thomas, 70. The benefit was for the Wildlife Waystation, a preserve for homeless critters near Los Angeles. Zsa Zsa decided to throw a theme soirée, and Danny came as a big-game hunter (a curious choice for a function that is raising money to keep animals alive). Also on hand in more tasteful, authentic trappings were a puma, a reindeer, a lioness, a jaguar, a raccoon, a macaw and a Gabor ex-husband-at least one in the group is in little danger of becoming an endangered species...
Miss Manners clearly stresses etiquette at the table, but Harvard finds most of it useless. Three full pages describe the function of every fork imaginable when the Union stocks only one variety. The most important advice goes without mention--avoid the forks that still have this morning's French toast stuck to their tines...
...Soviets to occupy a residence in Glen Cove tax free and turning it against our national interests," declared Mayor Alan Parente. The Soviets immediately protested to American officials, and the State Department delivered a stern reprimand: "This is an action that interferes in the conduct of foreign affairs, a function within the exclusive competence of the Federal Government...
...General Desmond Langley of the Queen's Household Guards said: "We must do everything we can to stop I.R.A. attacks. But it is difficult because ceremonial duties are public, predictable, routine and totally nontactical. If we attempt to vary times and routes, we are not fulfilling our ceremonial function." At week's end the police had arrested no suspect...
...competitive by rushing into trendy new investment schemes. They made too many loans to businesses that would remain viable only as long as the economy kept growing strongly. Says Franklin R. Edwards, a professor of banking at Columbia University: "The problem that many banks currently experience is not a function of irresponsibility or imprudence, but of operating in a more competitive environment. Deregulation of the industry and the expansion of financial services have caused the competition to heat up, and this has caused banks to push beyond their areas of expertise...