Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kremlin wall, but he uses it mostly to receive visitors. He usually returns home at about 6 p.m. in another motorcade. Extra traffic police are stationed along Kutuzovsky Prospekt to clear the central lanes for the four limousines. He stays downtown late only when there is some special ceremonial function or when, as often happens, the regular Thursday Politburo meeting runs into the evening...
Unless it may seem like I'm picking on particular courses, allow me to generalize: has anyone out there ever taken a course which is likely to be of any real use in later life, assuming of course that boring people at cocktail parties is not a useful function? After spending roughly $60,000 on becoming educated, do you feel that your ability to win at Trivial Pursuit has substantially improved...
...their conference in Acapulco last week, the Presidents of eight Latin American countries called for a sweeping overhaul of the Organization of American States, the Washington-based association of 32 hemispheric nations formed in 1948. Complaining that "for several years the OAS has not carried out its function efficiently," Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid asked for "a detailed re-examination and reinforcement" of that body...
...first step is to encourage Harvard to institute a bodily-function-for-credit system and establish a Bodily Functions Center, where students can get together to talk about the important issues facing us, to exercise our bodily functions, and to congratulate ourselves for our progressive attitudes...
President Bok was also invited by the Soviet Foreign Ministry to attend a function with Gorbachev, as were other academic leaders, but he could not attend due to a scheduling difficulty...