Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best hope for ultimately restraining energy prices, increasing supplies and loosening the control of the cartel is to allow the market to function at last. Initially, there would be a severe penalty. If the U.S. removes all controls on oil, gasoline and natural gas, their prices will rise to world levels. This will reduce consumption and save oil for the most
...other hand, your habitual printing of that photograph serves a useful function of warning the reader of your fondness for inflicting embarassment on those in positions of authority by deliberately quoting them (visually or verbally) out of context. Eric Kurtz...
...issues, he admits, he stands closest to George Bush. And Bakshian says that Jerry Ford ("on all the big things, he made the right decisions"), Alexander Haig or Scoop Jackson (save for the fact that "he has all the personality of a three-day-old Fresca") would function well in the White House...
...University in the day-to-day hassles of running Harvard; budgets, student housing and power plants are important, but only as a means to "a greater end." In his first annual report, Bok noted that no president can produce blueprints for the whole school. He envisioned his function as an issue-raiser. "My role is not to decide academic issues," he states today, "but to see that the most important questions are identified...
...another important factor has been the resourcefulness of his medical team, led by an old wartime comrade, Dr. Bogdan Brecelj, 74. The physicians have relied increasingly on medical machinery ever since his kidney failure and the onset of pneumonia. Dialysis treatment, to replace the kidneys' blood-cleansing function, has been used since late February. Tito is also receiving oxygen, and is reportedly hooked up to a respirator, which forces air in and out of his fluid-filled lungs, and an external pacemaker to regulate his erratic heartbeat...