Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President, of course, should be able to organize his staff as he pleases, but that staff has grown so haphazardly in recent years that it sometimes interferes with good administration. Since Nixon's presidency, White House aides have from time to tune usurped the function of Cabinet officers, congressional liaison aides have tried to dictate policy to the House and Senate instead of reasoning with them, and National Security Advisers have overshadowed Secretaries of State as architects of foreign policy...
...most important military requirements is the capacity to airlift combat troops to a crisis area, but the Rapid Deployment Force established by President Carter last March cannot begin to deploy rapidly. It lacks airlift and sealift capability and even such basics as adequate communications gear. Its command function is mired in a jurisdictional dispute between the Army and the Marine Corps...
...short. Warned Otto Eckstein, president of Data Resources, an economic consulting firm based in Lexington, Mass.: "The federal budget has tremendous upward momentum. Increases in spending can't go on at the rate of the past ten years, or the private sector won't be able to function any more." Manhattan Economic Consultant Alan Greenspan, who is also a member of Reagan's new Economic Policy Advisory Board, pointed out that towering interest rates are threatening the survival of many American financial institutions. Said he: "A continuation of business as usual will lead us off a cliff...
Never one to root for confusion merely for the sake of party success, Tsongas offers his advice freely to a president whom he sees in a hopeless situation. "The great issues for the future are energy, the economy, defense, environment, the third world, and international trade. Inflation is a function of these things. The basic question he should ask himself is. 'Does it work?' not 'Does it adhere to my right wing philosophy?" When you come out with Kemp-Roth, you are not answering that question...
...with modernism, only more so, because we are much closer to it. Its reflexes still jerk, the severed limbs twitch; the parts are still there, but they no longer connect or function as a live whole. The modernist achievement will continue to affect culture for another century at least, because it was large, so imposing and so irrefutably convincing. But its dynamic is gone, and our relationship to it is becoming archaeological. Picasso is no longer a contemporary, or a father figure; he is a remote ancestor, who can inspire admiration but not opposition. The age of the New, like...