Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cream tasting is a notoriously erratic business. Not only subjectivity but sheer numbness is a problem. "Your taste buds get so cold they barely function on about the eighth lick," I.A.I.C.M. Spokesman Witte explains. "Your nose still works O.K., but ice cream doesn't smell much...
...defense budgets are also addressing these needs. This means more air and sea-lift capacity from the U.S., and pre-positioning in Germany of combat equipment for the first wave of reinforcements. The purpose is to provide the maximum margin -again for diplomacy, if it could still function-before the terrible decisions on nuclear escalation would have to be faced...
What Carpenter has done is to create a complicated and silly story where a simple and effective plot would have worked better. The appeal of his fantastically successful Halloween lay in the unadorned menace of the villain; New York could have served a similar function. It is a city of extremes, both good and bad, and Carpenter, might have seized its evil and wrung from it a portrait of malignancy out of control. But he didn't. He didn't even try. It wouldn't have been that difficult--all he had to do was ride the subways...
Although the executive board originally rejected the University's offer of North House space because of its location. Tarver said the staff could probably function in the building for a year. "We will continue to actively pursue other leads, even though we have a temporary home," Tarver said...
Repeaters are often the ones who are released, while longtimers who are good parole risks remain caged for years. Most inmates serving lengthy sentences are rational and responsible individuals who would function very well in a halfway-house setting...