Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...merely by delays (one train in every ten is late) but by violent crime (18 murders, 12,000 muggings, robberies and other felonies in the past year). The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) carries one of every six people using public transit in the entire nation. The city cannot function without it. During a ten-day strike last spring, New York firms lost about $100 million in sales each workday...
This ancient bomber is groping upward, electronically blind, attempting to join five others stacked in layers just 500 ft. apart. At 10,000 ft. the sky is an inkwell, and the primary and back-up heading systems are out. The radar works sporadically, and even when it does function, it provides tunnel vision, off to one side. The only dependable navigation aid is a simple compass, just like the ones people stick on the dashboards of their cars...
...officials said government investigators did not find the leakage significant enough to warrant shutting the equipment down, but Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guidelines state, "Transformers containing PCBs can be used as long as they perform their intended function and do not leak PCBs into the environment...
...orders. Troopers are never based in their home provinces, in order to prevent the kind of personal involvement that might make them reluctant to use force. The 58,000-man Guardia Civil is part of the army and is under the command of an army general, but its basic function is police work...
Gene splicing is the most powerful and awesome skill acquired by man since the splitting of the atom. It is an unparalleled exploratory tool for examining, and in the process changing, the complicated machinery of heredity. If a gene of unknown function is inserted into bacteria, it can act as a probe that lets scientists see precisely what it does. By such techniques, researchers will finally speed up the formidable task of identifying, locating and analyzing every one of the more than 100,000 genes found in a human cell...