Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faculty salaries, says Associate Dean Phyllis Keller. But no such scale exists for tenured Faculty members, all of whose salaries Rosovsky determines on an individual basis. Administrators are stingy about the statistics they will reveal about full professors' salaries, but they insist that those figures are also mostly a function of age and experience, Nozick's case apparently notwithstanding...
...consensus within the testing community that the SAT measures a type of achievement has prompted some to press to rename the test--to remove any implication that it reveals unchanging aptitude. Many admissions officials, for their part, seem unconcerned by the test's name, saying the test's function is well-known...
...linking all Bok's president responsibilities is a common approach: painstaking scrutiny Decisions are not made hastily in Mass Hall issues can drag on unresolved for many months or even years. Bok's celebrated delegation of power to a series of lieutenants seems to function smoothly allowing him to keep an eye on and a hand in the different projects without having to make immediate decisions...
This spring's accord by Anglican and Catholic negotiators seeks to overcome these longstanding difficulties by the positive approach of examining how the single leader of a future reunited church might function. The Anglicans agreed that the Bishop of Rome could have jurisdiction to intervene in any part of the church under certain circumstances, and could issue infallible teachings on his own, with the proviso that they would later need to be received and recognized by the church. If anything, this accord was more unsettling for Anglicans than for the Vatican...
Conservative Alan Greenspan singled out those high deficits as the main cause of the present economic malaise. Said he: "Current interest rates are largely a function of long-term inflation expectations, and that, in turn, is based on the long-term budget outlook. I think that the failure of the so-called budget summit between the President and House Speaker Tip O'Neill was an expensive failure...