Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national group that tries to encourage constructive talk about herpes is the Herpes Resource Center in Palo Alto, Calif., an organization with 30,000 members in 45 chapters known as Help groups. The chapters function as a large group-therapy session, letting newcomers talk out their problems and assuring herpes sufferers that they are not alone...
...touch with reality. John Hinckley's deed was not motivated by revenge or the desire for political aggrandizement. It was a violent act by a man who didn't understand the difference between right and wrong. The American justice system worked. If it continues to function properly, then John Hinckley Jr. will be treated as the sick...
Because tens of thousands of rank-and-file members turned in their cards after the crackdown, party cells have ceased to function in many places...
...bold colors to the bathroom with tubs and toilets in deep shades of red, blue and avocado. Nonetheless, when Herbert Kohler became chairman in 1972, he decided that plumbing had not reached its potential. Says he: "I felt we could innovate with shapes and colors to change the whole function of the bathroom and make it something stimulating, possibly even social...
...background. Not until 1978 did he learn, after demanding to see his FBI and Army counterintelligence files under the Freedom of Information Act, that Army spooks had concluded that the two of them were having a sexual affair. In 1943, moreover, an FBI agent reported hearing at "a social function" that the results of the bugging had been presented to F.D.R., who squabbled with Eleanor in the presence of an Army counterintelligence officer and then ordered "that anybody who knew anything about this case should be . .. sent to the South Pacific for action against the Japs until they were killed...