Word: functionality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allowed to take a majority of his courses here in the graduate schools. He finds these fairly similar to the German curriculum, especially in respect to seminars, which are found at all levels at the Free University. General education and distribution requirements do not exist in German universities. Their function is fulfilled by a rigorous secondary school program in which almost all courses are compulsory and students graduate at the approximate level of U.S. College sophomores...
...supporter was Major General Sir Colin Jardine, one of the two council members who had refused to sign the report. "I doubt if the Social and Industrial Council is the body which should properly be charged with the task of appraisal of M.R.A.," he said. "It is not their function to pass judgment on the theology and psychology of M.R.A. . . . I know many members of M.R.A. I find them wholehearted, courageous, disciplined and kind Christian men and women...
...balance the political appointees, the commission urged creation of a politically neutral "senior civil service"-an echelon of from 1,500 to 3,000 well-paid career men whose function it would be to ensure efficient continuity from one Administration to another. Between the political and nonpolitical groups a line should be drawn defining a "clear division of labor," which the commission said does not presently exist. At the lower levels of Government service, the commission recommended less politics, suggesting that 1) political clearance be eliminated for 32,000 rural mail carriers; 2) U.S. marshals and field employees...
...Sheppard trial, find that they have to pause for parenthetical explanation of the simplest procedures and the oldest rules of evidence. But no government will ever be much better than its courts. No system of welfare services, no multiplication of statutes or policemen can ever substitute for the ancient function in which society reflects dhe cosmic order, however dimly, by the dispensation of justice between...
...know," says Vanderbilt, "the courts are the only nationwide or statewide businesses that have ever attempted to function without any administrative machinery." The federal judiciary was dependent on the chief litigant in its courts-the Justice Department-for the conduct of all its business affairs, from buying pencils to presenting the judicial budget to Congress, until a 1939 law improved efficiency in the federal courts by setting up an administrative office...