Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...model hausfrau, but after delivering the opinion that psychoanalysis is a "form of pornography," she is rarely heard from again. The woman in Freud's later life was his daughter and intellectual heir Anna. She followed in her father's professional footsteps and, in all but conjugal function, became a dutiful substitute spouse...
...Youth supervisors were key to the function of the Saturday program," says Roth, who did the additional choreography needed for the Saturday program. The approximately 20 youth supervisors pick students up at their homes on Saturday afternoon and take them to either the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) or the Currier House Dance Studio for rehearsal and return them to their homes following the practice...
...rarely letting one idea overwhelm the rest. And his sensible, good old Americanism, counterbalances his spacier side. On old Route 66 at Albuquerque's southwest edge is the Beach, a Navajo-blanket-pattern ed, neon- emblazoned apartment complex that, despite the glitz, has a strong sense of urbanity, a function of the labyrinth of outdoor stairways and corridors...
...research is focused on long-term care, meaning not hospital care, but home care and nursing care to help people function--for people who don't need medical help so much but need help dressing, feeding and moving around," Rivlin says...
...Kleer's diagnostic systems are at least five years away. Even further out are general-knowledge systems that would not be limited to a specific function or even a preset agenda but would instead be able to respond appropriately to unexpected tasks and problems. To develop such systems, a rebel generation of AI scientists believes that it is necessary to rebuild their field from the ground up. Their emphasis, says Philosopher Daniel Dennett of Tufts University, is on figuring out how people manage to accomplish the plain, everyday things that account for most human behavior, rather than on creating...