Word: function
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Even with its irrationalities, cadets say that the fourth class system is important because it separates West Point from other colleges. "Beast" is necessary, they say, for it helps them to adapt to a military environment--something they function within for at least five years following graduation. People who come to West Point in search of the "free education"--cadets actually receive half a second lieutenant's pay during their four years--don't usually stay around. The attrition rate hovers at 25 per cent. "No one comes just for the education," says one cadet who wants...
...Independent Judiciary (C.I.J.). Their aim: to work against Reagan and to try to head off votes for John Anderson that might enhance Reagan's chances. The committee, at least the second of its kind, insisted that its membership spanned a wide ideological spectrum and that its function was more educational than political. Several prominent figures on it, however, are longtime Democratic Party supporters, and it risks being viewed as just another partisan organization. Nevertheless, its formation points up how important the judicial issue has become in the presidential race...
...PETER EISENMAN pointed out in an essay on the houses, the project represents a development of certain general themes. Walls and roofs function as planes compressing space. Hejduk alleviates the tension within the box-like shape by puncturing the surface of the walls with glass windows or cutting away the roof to open courtyards. Hejduk also works at resolving the conflict between a symmetrical form (the nine-square grid) and the asymmetrical demands of a program for a functioning house. At first he conceals the asymmetries within the house; later, he reflects them onto the facades by arranging columns which...
Although NATO is now training forces to function on contaminated battlefields, "The U.S. has never practiced extended field exercises," says Meselson. "Only thorough training and discipline will provide adequate protection," he adds...
...bend, and roofs and ceiling invert on each other. Mirror Way at the Fogg is an elaborate experiment in such deception: pathways are blocked, stairs run up into floors, a ladder leads up to a slatted roof which then leads nowhere. In short, the structure is illogical--it feigns functionalism and yet refuses to function...