Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea of a reviewing authority, including closer supervision by designated committees of the Congress, seems sound. In its hearings on the nomination of Gray, which are scheduled to continue this week, the Senate Judiciary Committee has been performing a most useful supervisory function and showing a high regard for the proper role of the FBI. What the FBI needs is a director?as well as an Attorney General, with whom he must work closely ?who possesses an unshakable sense of the difference between the pursuit of justice and the protection of political interests. The distinction is not all that...
Octavius Rowe, executive director of RMTI, said that the function of the institute is to encourage community participation in social services. "RMTI is self-help personified, because it attracts black people back into the community," he said...
...been rector at St. Peter's for 22 years. In that time the composition of the parish has changed. Attitudes toward religion have changed, both in the parish and in churches in general. One of the biggest problems facing St. Peter's is the changing attitude towards the function of churches and of organized religion. In St. Peter's it is a battle between the ancients and the moderns, with the rector leading the moderns...
...illness. He generally wears ankle-high sneakers, which he finds more comfortable than shoes, around the lab. His preference for another Good sartorial trademark?a turtleneck sweater instead of a shirt and tie?is purely personal. Says he: "I've never been convinced that a necktie has any real function except...
...resisting the ones that can harm or kill him. The major mechanism that does this, and enables man to survive, is the immune system, designed by nature to quickly recognize, attack and destroy any foreign matter that enters the body. The system is complex and depends for its function on a wide variety of highly specialized substances. Its main agents are cells called lymphocytes, which are produced by the so-called "stem cells" of the bone marrow, the mushy, reddish substance that manufactures blood components. Once formed, the lymphocytes develop into two distinct types of cells, each of which plays...