Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...ministries of foreign affairs. Even if the National Security Adviser were a saint, he would be tempted to use his office's proximity to the President to compete with the State Department. Not even a President more capable of devising and imposing his own course than Jimmy Carter can function well with two senior advisers...
...architectural establishment. He has frequently deplored what he calls "architects' architecture" and admits no debt to the International Style of the Bauhaus. He uses the plainest of materials ? adobe, raw beams, cobbles ? to create astringently el egant effects. His commitment is not to community or social function but to privacy: "Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake. That is why it has been an error to replace the protection of walls with today's intemperate use of enormous glass windows." Many of his devices serve absolutely no function except visual delight; he thinks...
...what exactly is the FDO's function? Students certainly hold different opinions on its role in the University's administrative structure. One freshman recently termed it "An unnecessary, bureaucratic, paternalistic institution." "An innocuous, friendly bunch of people," his Freshman Union dinnermate disagreed...
MARILYN FERGUSON, editor of the Brain/Mind Bulletin, a newsletter about new discoveries in consciousness, brain function, biofeedback, meditation, dreams, psychiatry, etc., has ostensibly written a book not on religions or religions change, but about social and political transformations. However, these transformations are predicted on the so-called consciousness revolution, the inner changes produced by a decade of millions of altered awarenesses, self-actualizations, encounter sessions, gurus and shrinks...
...strikes were swiftly put down by a combination of reason and rule. After dispatching his Labor Minister on a nationwide tour to hear the workers' grievances, Mugabe angrily described their actions as "nothing short of criminal." Sounding much like a hard-nosed conservative, he declared that "the primary function of any government is to ensure the permanence of peace through the maintenance of law and order." The strikes kindled deep resentment among Mugabe's followers, some of whom charged that they had been politically inspired by labor organizers loyal to Nkomo...