Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ought not to be taken as a given that if the centrist regime were to fall, the victors would be the left. The right is not a one-man dictatorship, like Somoza's, but a rather powerful grouping that is able to function effectively even without possession of the government...
...tasks that fall on Hugon's shoulders invoice preparation for home meets. After volunteering several hours each week for the preliminaries, the easygoing manager then spends alternate Saturdays nursing Blodgett Pool's sensitive timing system through the meets. Already a pool legend for getting the very temperamental device to function on command, Hugon often responds to pleas to perform his magic during women's meets, intramural contests, and Masters competitions...
...Ouchi points out, Japan's sense of the collective is rooted in the nation's experience as a densely populated, resource-poor country in which teamwork and compromise are absolutely essential. Without those characteristics, Japanese society could never function as success fully as it does. The U.S., in many ways, now faces problems similar to those Japan has known for many centuries. The world has become much more competitive, and resources like energy are increasingly scarce or expensive. Although individualism and self-reliance have been the very basis of U.S. culture since the nation's founding, companies...
...Harvard Black organization can have any legitimacy whatsoever unless the vast majority of its work is directed toward poor Blacks. This need not be its entire function--it must, however, by its paramount concern...
WHAT IS THE FUNCTION of memory in ressurrecting the children we once were, the personalities we abandoned long ago? In A Model Childhood, Christina Wolf struggles with this question as she tries, in graceful, stirring prose, to reconstruct her youth in Nazi Germany. Writing after a brief trip back to her native town in 1971, Wolf succeeds in raising distrubing questions about the relationship of the past to the present, but the lofty, stream of consciousness style which so effectively creates the feeling of memory ultimately precludes any real clarity of vision. Although in a work such as this...