Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...defeated last month for the Senate, and Kansas Senator Robert Dole. Nixon's choice will indicate to what extent the White House will control party affairs going into the next election. Bush, for instance, would demand a strong voice for the committee. Dole might be more willing to function simply as Nixon's spokesman. There was talk that John Mitchell might resign as Attorney General to assume overall command of Nixon's campaign above the party chairman, but that would seem illogical now; Mitchell can easily advise the President politically without leaving the Justice Department...
Eight years later, as Ne Win himself once admitted in a rare moment of candor, Burma is "in a mess." The economy, almost totally nationalized, has virtually ceased to function. Last spring the state-owned distribution system collapsed altogether, and Rangoon shoppers who queue up before dawn are lucky if the shelves are not totally bare a few minutes after the People's Stores open. Prices have risen fivefold since 1962, but rice exports, once the largest in the world, are down to less than a third of their precoup levels...
With STAR, controllers should rest easy. Built by a Lithuanian-born J.P.L. engineer named Algirdas Avižienis, 38, the computer consists of ten separate units, each designed to perform a specific function (computation, logic, communications, memory and monitoring). More important, some of the units always stand by as spares. Thus, if any of STAR'S working parts should falter, it can quickly mobilize a replacement...
...reason the lung does not function properly is simply that it has not yet matured. One remedy for RDS is to delay birth until the lungs mature, but this requires a prenatal test to determine the lungs' condition-something that doctors have always lacked...
...lung directly if it is mature enough to come out and breathe," says Gluck. If the lung answers yes, the baby can be delivered immediately by induced labor or caesarean section. If the answer is no, labor can often be delayed until the lung is mature enough to function. Performed on more than 400 women in the past two years, the Gluck test has thus far proved 100% accurate...