Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cosmonauts, who arrived in Soyuz ferry craft, the workhorses of the Soviet manned space effort. In addition to regular supplies, they carried mail, such special snacks as fresh borsch, strawberries and quail pate, not to mention a guitar. Though Salyut was designed to last 18 months, it continues to function thanks to on-board repairs by the cosmonauts plus periodic shipments of fuel, food, water, air and equipment...
Sometimes, rather surprisingly, it is there. In particular it seems to lurk in the Mirrors, a series of paintings Lichenstein completed between 1970 and 1972. With their silvery surfaces, reflection lines and bevels and breaks in the light, which manage to function equally as pattern and as illusion (the mirror, in art, being one of the arenas in which both can live side by side), these paintings possess a ravishing formal elegance...
...commitment to the popular Sandinista revolution in loyalty to our people, which is the same as saying, in loyalty to the will of God. We will continue in whatever place our presence and service might be necessary." What now? One possibility is that the four will be forbidden to function as priests...
Cornell University President Frank H.T. Rhodes at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.: "The chief function of the commencement speaker is to be brief...
...City businessman, did not know that his colt would even be entered in the Belmont until Barrera told him of his plans after the Pennsylvania Derby. Said Wilson: "I've been in racing long enough to try to be dumb about these things. An owner's principal function is to pay his bills." With a fat Belmont purse of $170,580 safely tucked away, paying the bills will be no problem...