Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more beautiful and strange and full of possibility is the world that can be imagined by the mythographers at Time or NBC." But he was in effect, admitting that for the sixth time in its 134 year history. Harper's was changing its format in order "to continue to function as a barometer of the social and intellectual weather of the times...
Aside from their purely social function, fraternities also traditionally have been an outlet for excess tension and anxiety. Some people like to call these things pranks but they're really just activities like making tie-dye shirts and ashtrays and wallets when you were a kid at camp. Probably that kid went a little far last year who stood naked in front of the Amherst President's house: the president's wife answered the door. But what's a little toilet paper here and there? At Florida State University last week, one fraternity brother fired a shot into the neck...
...probably the best example anywhere in the country of this great integration between the museum function and the academic, teaching function," says James J. McCarthy, director of the museum. "Unlike any other Harvard museum, the activities are very intimately interwoven with the teaching functions of the department," he adds...
...years ago and, like nearly 10% of people over 65, he had diabetes. The combination of cardiovascular disease and diabetes made him a high-risk candidate for kidney trouble, and he was suffering from kidney problems when he assumed power in November 1982. By last February, his kidney function had become so poor that he started treatment on a dialysis machine...
...cases where people have an outstanding record that shows they've changed and there's no point in keeping them in prison any longer." Bialecki says Gideonse does note, however that he sometimes has reservations about pushing for inmates release if their institutionalization has left them ill-equipped to function independently in the outside world...