Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enforcement budget for 1985 comes to only $366 million for a staff of 7,599, less than a third the number of officers with the New York City police department. That lack of resources, acknowledges a senior INS official, reflects the longstanding "national ambivalence" toward the service's main function...
...away, Secretary of State George Shultz was in his office, talking by phone to Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres about the hostage crisis. After the killings, security was tightened, including some searches of attache cases. Still, unsettled officials admitted that lapses can always occur. Said one: "We have to function. Are we going to search 10,000 people a day? I don't think you can ensure that a tragic incident like this will never happen...
...Some critics read more ominous messages in the film's popularity. They contend that it reflects a growing antiCommunist fervor and could help make military conflicts in Nicaragua or elsewhere more acceptable at home. Others argue that the film is serving a legitimate therapeutic function. "We're in the process of assimilating Viet Nam into our American experience," says Henry Graff, professor of history at Columbia University. "Pictures like Rambo allow us to think it through 20 years later without the pain of the casualty lists before us." Stallone is impatient with critics who call the film reactionary...
...said, she and her engineer husband Geza were living on a coffee and fruit farm in Nova Europa, 175 miles north of Sao Paulo, when they were introduced at a social function to Wolfgang Gerhard. Gerhard, an Austrian living in Brazil, asked the Stammers if they could take in a Swiss friend of his named Peter Hochbichlet. The friend, Gerhard said, would be able to help out around the farm. Agreeing to put up Peter, or "Pedro," in a separate house on their property, the family found him to be as good as Gerhard's word: the man paid...
...inspection provisions cannot prevent anyone from trying to divert nuclear materials. At best, they provide an alarm system if misbehavior is possible or has already occurred. The system's most important function is that it demonstrates good faith on the part of countries that have agreed to participate. Says a former I.A.E.A. official: "Safeguards are in a way similar to detente. They can only survive if there is mutual trust...