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...robot's basic function is not to look or behave like a human being but to do a human's work, and for that it needs mainly a guiding brain (the computer) and an arm with claws for fingers. The computer is simply plugged into an electric outlet; cables run from the computer along the robot's arm and transmit instructions in the form of electric impulses to the claw; for heavy work, robots use hydraulic pressure. The Robot Institute of America, an industrial trade group, therefore offers a contemporary, if somewhat prolix, definition of a robot...
Dignity is another vital ingredient of presidential effectiveness. It is an innate characteristic, but it is manifested in speech, dress, manners and a hundred other things. "The function of ceremony," Henry Kissinger once said, "is to indicate that the President has been given a responsibility by the state that transcends the average citizen. Our people like it, and foreigners insist upon...
...politicians of the New Right animated by an immaculate affection for free enterprise? Or, perhaps, do their ideologies and regional interests conveniently coincide? It's always popular to debunk the government. But at least he realizes that the domestic function of government is to prevent the economy, where possible, from becoming altogether distorted, and to clean up after the social ills created by the public sector. Admittedly, the dynamism of American enterprise created this country's prosperity; it also created economic behavior and trends with undesirable and dangerous social implications. Government fulfills a protective role for Americans, so quietly...
Majorie K. Jeffcoat, assistant professor of Periodontology at the Dental School, said yesterday tetracycline would not replace surgical treatment but instead would function as an "adjunct to therapy...
...seriously, and no one, even in a Woody Allen movie, is more tragically affected than the male solitary wasp. He enthusiastically copulates for as long as several days. But when the female signals that she has had enough by turning away, he makes no amends or entreaties. His biological function fulfilled, he dies...