Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Business schools are like bottling plants," says Richard West, dean of Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School. "The product is about 90% done before we ever get it. We put it in a bottle and we label it. The price is a function of what the market will...
...course, there's something strange about reading literary television criticism at all. Somehow form and function seem skewed. When you read it in the pages of the New Yorker (which for years ran a racing column that inexplicably described the decaying Aqueduct as if it were Epsom Downs), the feeling starts hitting you even harder. One wonders--why is it there? Clearly people do not watch "Dallas" to muse over the fact our interrelationships are destabilized and smooth. On the other hand, it seems a strange intellectual game--a furious overcompensation--for one to watch a soap opera and then...
Huxtable, who won the 1971 Pultizer Prize for criticism, said that today architecture has no motivating vision and so there are no great architects. "The age of masters is finished," she said, adding that novelty is more important to the present generation than form and function...
...punish the voters for passing Proposition 2 1/2." Noting that the proposition will not take effect until July 1, he said the police and firefighters were laid off because White "has managed the city badly" and he would rather pay his public relations staff than finance "the first function of government, public safety...
However, Long--who said claims of thousands of political executions daily are exaggerated--added that the re-education camps are necessary for the government to function without "unwarranted anarchy...