Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daytime tennis at the Cercle Sportif Cambodge is accompanied by the very audible chatter of 20-mm. machine guns. Bars serving Westerners function well beyond the 9 o'clock curfew when the streets become completely empty. It is hard to believe that just 15 miles down the Mekong, the war in Cambodia smolders on, an ever more bloody stalemate with no end yet in sight...
HARVARD'S TWO GOVERNING BOARDS may not actually be as powerful as they sound from their names, but they do at least have an important symbolic function as the highest-ranking groups of alumni in the University. If nothing else, the members of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers are the alumni most honored by Harvard. So it's disappointing that they're overwhelmingly male and corporate in composition, and that it appears they will both fill their vacancies this spring with more businessmen...
...more broadly than ever before." Among the host of programs to bring tax relief, spur the economy and cushion unemployment that congressional Democrats have considered, they have discarded practically nothing, with the exception of a revival of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. They discovered that the Depression-born agency's function of lending money to foundering businesses had been assumed by other federal agencies. The Democrats' program issues a clear challenge to the President: "The nation at this juncture could ill afford a passive Congress that did no more than await and then react in leisurely, piecemeal fashion to Executive recommendations...
...function properly, the body must carefully control blood pressure through a number of complex mechanisms. Baroreceptors-clusters of pressure-sensitive cells scattered throughout the arterial system-respond to changes in pressure and signal the nervous system to make the necessary adjustments. The nervous system in turn helps lower or raise pressure by 1) expanding or dilating arterioles, the smallest branches of arteries, or 2) retarding or speeding up the heart's beat and changing its force of contraction...
When these systems function normally, the circulatory system has few problems. Blood pressure rises during exercise or excitement, falls during sleep or relaxation. Like pipes in a plumbing system, the arteries can tolerate high pressure for brief "surges." But when the pressure persists, damage is likely...