Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lonsdale's anthology is quite thorough. Although he clearly understands that the book's function is to serve, in Fielding's terms, as a bill of fare before whatever feast the reader might desire, he spent years scouring all available sources to uncover a selection of admirable breadth. There are extracts from Pope's Dunciad, Rape of the Lock, Essay on Man, and assorted Epistles and Elegles. Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes is printed in full, as are Swift's Description of the Morning and his Verses On The Death Of Doctor Swift. There are generous selections from Mathew...
According to Russell, the club provides a service to the aviation community by running a "Ground School," a two-day course--addressing such diverse topics as engine function, meteorology and aerodynamics--that prepares students to take a written exam necessary to start pilot training...
...Soviet expert: "The Russians can't easily accommodate computer technology because it gives too many people too much information." Secrecy is so vital to the Soviet system that printing presses or even photocopying machines are unavailable to the average citizen. Since personal computers attached to printers can function as high-speed presses, the Kremlin is unlikely to allow them to become commonplace in Soviet homes...
...devices. After a briefing from Administration officials last week, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee said, "The loss was substantial." The Soviets apparently placed sensors of some sort inside the workings of certain typewriters. Electronic-eavesdropping specialists in Washington speculate that the Soviets somehow encoded the machines' typing function, giving each character a distinguishing electronic or magnetic signature. These signals may have been transmitted to antennas planted in the embassy's exterior walls and in turn carried to a listening post located safely away from U.S. diplomatic property...
...Soviet workers halted work for several weeks on the U.S. embassy to protest American use of an X-ray machine to detect structural flaws. The Soviets said it was hazardous to workers' health, but it became obvious that they were more concerned with the machine's real function: locating eavesdropping bugs that workers might be secreting in the walls...