Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members of this community from expressing themselves on issues such as apartheid of from engaging in political efforts to promote their views. Indeed, the right to act in this way is an essential part of academic freedom. There is likewise no reason why the University should not perform the function entrusted to it as a shareholder under our laws by voting on issues of social responsibility. The University may even communicate its views through discussions with the officials of companies whose stock it holds. But the line is crossed when a university goes beyond expressing opinions and tries to exert...
...more the University acts in this way the more it risks disturbing the implicit arrangements under which institutions of learning can continue to function with the freedom they need to carry out their essential mission. If Harvard insists on exerting leverage on issues we care deeply about individuals corporations, and other organizations are likely to exert economic pressure against us on matters they feel strongly about, such as the radical opinions of particular professors, or Harvard's positions toward ROTC, or the University's policies concerning involvement in covert CIA activities...
...Crimson's frustrations were aggravated by the efficiency of the Columbia defense, which executed the offside trap almost professionally any time the Harvard eleven tried to penetrate. As a result, Harvard's scoring hopes never reached fruition. Also contributing to the setback was the gadfly-like function performed by the Lions' Caribbean-born front line of Solomon Gayle, Dexter Skeene and Kingsley chin, all three of whom stayed in the faces of the Crimson back four throughout the game...
...pound PC portable is similar in function and capability to the PC, but is a one piece unit that folds into an oversized briefcase...
...army can do more for a nation than just protect it. Instead, the Swiss see their army as a reversed social institution, bringing together citizens from different regions, who often speak different languages, for the common goal of defending Swiss neutrality. This, McPhee implies, is the army's real function in Switzerland, and should perhaps be its task elsewhere...