Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...population policy professor amended the statement, saying, "The future will be like the present in many aspects of the physical city, but the function of the city--the texture of life--will continue to change in fundamental ways...
...Mantovani, New Age music is easily disparaged. Yet music that relaxes need not be devoid of content. Bach composed the Goldberg Variations to ease the slumbers of an insomniac, and his contemporary, Telemann, wrote reams of Tafelmusik, music intended as background to dining. Quality is not necessarily restricted by function...
...person's right to vote on the grounds of illiteracy. In a 1971 letter to the Senate after his confirmation hearings, Rehnquist stated categorically that he had not "personally engaged in challenging the credentials of any voter." This time around he was more circumspect. First he claimed that his function on Election Day was to provide legal advice to Republicans assigned the task of challenging voters' credentials. Then, peppering his testimony with "I don't recall"s, he said he did not believe he had ever challenged any voter...
...largest function of all these people is to provide a bustling background for Ripley's quieter, more intense development. In the first film she was a smart, self-contained careerist, essentially a reactive character, desperately fighting against something but not for anybody or anything except her own life. The sequel gives her something, someone wonderful to fight...
...according to the court's decision, wrongly empowers a congressional official, the comptroller general, to perform an executive function. The comptroller general, appointed by the president, heads Congress' General Accounting Office, a watchdog agency that audits federal programs...