Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...France of the 1950s, the domestic world was the accepted, indeed expected, environment for women. Madeline and Lena function almost as a unit in helping each other to explore the world outside. Kury highlights the strength of the women's friendship by subtly contrasting it to the friendship that develops between Costa and Michel. While Michel and Costa vie for the attention of each others' wives on a joint family outing, Michel tells Madeline. "You only look at Lena, never at me." And while each husband tries to trick the other into phony business deals, Lena and Madeline remain loyal...
Since taking office, the Administration has virtually eliminated HUD's function as a builder of low-cost housing, choosing instead to spend $5.8 billion on modernizing existing units. Reagan has proposed a private-sector substitute: a housing voucher program, whereby poor families could shop for housing in the private rental market with federally subsidized cash vouchers. The Administration argues that the program will save the Government money and give people more control over their choice of dwellings. Critics charge, however, that the supply of private, low-cost housing is too small, and the opportunities for landlord price gouging...
...Andropov's death is thus more significant than a flubbed diplomatic opportunity. It is a reminder that the United States shares the worst of the Soviet Union's faults. Bush serves to express our sympathy, and his own, for the Soviet man who most closely resembled his own repressive function. It will be a sobering scene in Moscow, for all of us, as one Big Brother steps forward to lament the other's passing...
...major factor in the success of last week's transplant was the drug Cyclosporin A, an immunosuppressant whose function is to reduce the chances that the patients body will reject the donor organ...
...function of the computing unit, the largest of the three branches, with over 100 employees, is "selling" computer time on highly advanced computer programs...