Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...involved, either as unwitting coconspirator or victim, in something more menacing to the commonwealth than a few dirty political tricks. These dawning hints of complicity give him an excuse to renounce political expedience and square himself with his former wife (Julie Christie) and his sometime mentor (Gene Hackman), who function here as the voices of liberal conscience...
...what happened in Soc Rel. The department grew "wings," divisions of scholars with similar interests. "Social Relations served a very good purpose, but I felt it fractured in the latter years," says Edward L. Pattullo, director of the Center for Behavioral Sciences. According to Pattullo, Social Relations came to function as four separate departments under a larger framework. Others say that by the 1950s the department was already tenuring scholars for achievement in particular fields, having little regard for a candidate's contributions to "social relations" broadly understood...
...draft during the Vietnam War (although he looks physically fit to me)." It seems Stallone went to an elite private school in Switzerland, then from 1967 to 1969 studied acting at the University of Miami. On his acting days at Miami, Stallone reflects: "I learned it was possible to function without brain waves for two years." Then as U.S. fortunes sagged in Vietnam, Stallone in the early 1970s worked on producing soft core porn movies...
Federal law technically forbids banks to branch across state lines. But the rules have not stopped the interstate spread of financial institutions that function very much as real banks do. These companies have been able to circumvent the law because they do not fit the legal definition of a bank: an institution that takes deposits that can be withdrawn on demand and makes commercial loans. Known as "nonbank banks," the newcomers generally take deposits or make loans, but do not do both. About 80 of these limited-service banks have sprung up across...
...countries have come to share during their long and intimate association. Said Bosworth: "We will be judged--and we will judge ourselves--by the fate of democracy in this country and by the success of your national efforts to strengthen your democratic institutions and to ensure that they function effectively. We have a moral and political stake in a democratic Philippines, which transcends all our other interests here, strategic as well as economic...