Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chaos is not too strong a word to describe the present condition of American government. For the past five months it has been able to function only marginally; for the past week it has functioned not at all. During his press conference last Friday night Nixon pointed to his decisive action in the Middle East as evidence of the continuing vitality of the government, but the skepticism aroused by his declaration of a military alert points only in the opposite direction...
...problem were only Richard Nixon, the answer would be simple. Once we get rid of Nixon and get a half-way decent man into the presidency, the problem would be repaired and government could again begin to function. Unfortunately, nothing is that simple nowadays...
That statement was issued in response to an argument made Wednesday by Alexander Bickel, a professor of Law at Yale, who argues that the prosecutorial function belongs solely to the executive branch...
Since the Council wasn't eager to alienate these two large unions by refusing their requests, and since the city's tax rate is primarily a function of municipal employee salaries, the Cambridge tax rate skyrocketed as those salaries jumped almost 70 per cent in six years. "This year," Moncreiff says, "we told the police and fireman that we wouldn't approve any increase unless it was first approved by the manager--we've set a precedent." It requires a two-thirds vote by the nine-member Council to establish salaries by ordinance, so Moncreiff is hopeful that there will...
While the institutions of great scale fall apart around our ears, the proprietors of those institutions recognize that decentralization urgently is required--but they see and suggest the requirement only as a function of the Great Institutions...