Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mayor Richard Daley's 59 delegates who were excluded at Miami Beach were, after all, elected. Those Democratic voters who chose them were disenfranchised, however the McGovernites might feel about Daley. In opening some doors, the Democrats slammed some shut unfairly, and posed anew the question of the function of parties in the U.S. and who is entitled to determine who shall become Presidents...
Unfortunately most of his characters remain two dimensional. They are incapable of enlisting sympathy and are not credible though they do function admirably as vessels that can be filled with ideology or a historical lesson. Even his major figures caught up in the central action of the book--Samsonos simultaneously a commander in chief and a lamb vorotyntey a graduate of the General Staff College and representative of modern patriotic man or Arsenn Blagocharvov but not embittered competency in the tanks--are symbols rather than individuals...
...most important function of the letter was to try to help gay students "come out"--that is, admit their homosexuality. "As a former closet case myself, this is the sort of letter I would have thrown in a drawer. At least we know that the letter will start some gay students thinking," one member commented...
Perhaps the main reason is that good managers are a function of their competition. If the competition is slothful, as it was in some parts of Europe for many years after World War II, management becomes moss-backed. If competition is brisk, management turns innovative. The big entry of U.S. companies into European markets has done much to galvanize home-grown managers into meeting "the American challenge." And the decline of tariffs within the Common Market has made European producers start thinking about the competition immediately beyond their borders...
Commenting on a second important function of college, Bok said: "The college years should also provide an atmosphere which makes it easier for each of you to decide what you wish to do with your lives following graduation...