Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...task force is to limit the financial scale of the organ transplant business. The committee recommends a "no new facilities" policy in which the state would use the institutions, the hospitals, to restrict the number of operations performed. "Creating a limited capacity," in which "access [is] a function of medical condition" not of ability to pay, is the solution. Such restrictions would also ensure that other state-funded programs are not strangled by high costs of transplants...
...Clark's case, surgery was complicated by the fact that the heart tissue was so damaged by years of treatment with steroids that it tore like tissue paper in DeVries' hands. To make matters worse, when the artificial heart was implanted, it failed to function properly, and a stand-by left ventricle had to be substituted. DeVries felt so frustrated, he later admitted, that "I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor, if the press had not been there...
...Hodgkin, some artists are not so much working on the frame as working past it. They spill color across its borders to reject its entrenched authority. Others are working with decorative attachments and sculptural effects, not mocking the frame but embracing it, to restore a bit of the heraldic function that frames sometimes filled in the past...
...shake-out in frames is yet to come. The genuinely imaginative conceits are already outnumbered by gratuitous doodads that seem to have little function except to disguise inert painting. After the challenging stringencies of painting in the 1970s, artists and buyers are in the mood for a little fun. But a flood of gimmicky borders may send them fleeing back to the pleasures of the unembellished edge, and remind them that, after all, the main event is on the canvas...
Manned spaceflight for its own sake is typical of NASA's thinking, argue critics of the agency. The function of the space program, says Astronomer Sagan, is "to put people up in tin cans in earth orbit and then bring them down again. People are going up in order to ... go up. It is a capability without a mission." Concludes Sagan: "We do not have a space program, if one assumes that a program has goals and purposes...