Word: functional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Greensboro, who is not only sound of hearing but is also unable to communicate in sign language and has no experience in education for the deaf. The situation was further inflamed when Board Chairwoman Jane Bassett Spilman was reported to have remarked that "deaf people are not ready to function in a hearing world." (Later she insisted that the comment had been misunderstood...
...Congress in 1864, Gallaudet has become one of the world's foremost training centers for the deaf. And yet it has never had a hearing-impaired president -- the result, say students and staff, of paternalistic attitudes by a hearing world that perpetuates the myth that deaf people cannot function on their own. Comparing today's demands by deaf people with the black civil rights struggle in Alabama 23 years ago, Gallaudet Graduate Student Kathy Karcher declared, "This is the Selma of the deaf...
...would Bush's White House staff function? "Look at the campaign," says Brady. "It's a peek behind the veil. You'd have many strong personalities, but they'd work as a team." The most likely choice for White House chief of staff is Craig Fuller, Bush's current chief of staff, rather than the leaders of Bush's crack campaign team, Lee Atwater and Rich Bond. Communications Director Peter Teeley might be tapped for the same position in a Bush White House. Brady marvels at how Bush has kept that potentially combustible group of strong-minded aides from blowing...
Ordinarily, this gene--and other tumor suppressing genes like it--"act as guardian genes," preventing tumor growth, Seizinger said. When something happens to disturb the function of these genes--such as a mutation--they produces defective proteins and tumors may result...
...These things are speculations now, but soon we will know why dreams function," Hobson says. "The next 20 years will see a great deal of research devoted to the subject...