Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the film criticism that I have seen in the last decade serves two principle functions: to make for entertaining reading, and to present the critic's personal judgment on the film in question. (Some would argue another, more important function: to provide publicity, and thereby perpetuate the current system of economics, distribution, and exhibition--but in this I believe the critic to be an unwitting if not unwilling accomplice.) "Entertaining reading" usually translates on the page as to how "witty"--or "cutting"--the critic can be. "Personal judgement" usually reduces to a matter of taste--with painfully little...
...primary cooling system fails. In 1972 an antinuclear coalition that calls itself the National Intervenors revealed in hearings that some experts, including AEC specialists, were unsure that the safety system would really work. Their complaints helped lead to new AEC rules that give greater assurance that the ECCS will function as planned...
...local organizations who lost their funds have begun to complain that MCA uses too much of its budget for administrative costs. MCA cannot function efficiently and at the same time finance community groups on a $300,000 budget...
...growing staff shortages with blind newspaper ads: "Multinational company with worldwide operations seeks multilingual executive assistant willing to travel." Other multinational companies, however, outbid him with more intriguing ads and better pay. In desperation, Wessel decided to go public. He ordered his small public relations staff, whose major function previously had been to keep the BND out of the news, to thrust it into the limelight instead...
...endorsement of the change by all the A.P.A.'s 68 district branches. In a statement accompanying the announcement of their vote (13 for change; two abstentions and four absent), the trustees declared that many homosexuals show no signs of psychopathology, are satisfied with their sexual preferences, and can function effectively in society. It therefore seemed inappropriate to call them "sick." Those who are troubled by their homosexuality, the board said, would henceforth be described as suffering from a "sexual-orientation disturbance...