Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While people for centuries have used coffee, ten and other caffeinated plants is stimulants, the natural function of caffeine in plants has, until now remained a mystery, Nathanson said in a report published in Science magazine last week...
Scientists have known for years that plants, have naturally developed chemicals to protect themselves, Nathanson said, but only recently was it suspected that caffeine served this important function...
...Washington-based institute would function like an academic foundation, disbursing grants to universities and scholars. Though Congress must first formally appropriate the money, many legislators are convinced that the Peace Institute is at hand. "The price is right," explains Kansas Congressman Dan Glickman, a Democrat. "The funding for the first year is about one-fifth the cost of a single F-15." Around midnight, after a full day of work without a dinner break, the peace-loving conferees were supplied with one of war's little horrors: the latest in C rations, featuring ham loaf with beans and tomato...
...computers that may be thousands of miles apart is almost as important as the work that goes on inside the machines. As a result, the telecommunications and computer industries are converging. IBM and Rolm are believed to be preparing to unveil a desktop terminal, code-named Mesquite, that will function as both a telephone and a personal computer...
Norman Lear hired Borowitz for CBS after the producer met him his senior year at a Lampoon function. "I think it was a gut reaction," said Borowitz of Lear's job offer...