Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also played a confused role in the case. After signing an anti-crime bill allowing federal agents to enter campuses without permission from University officials, President Nixon ordered the FBI to investigate the bombing. But since he had signed the bill after the blast, the FBI's function was never precisely defined. Bureau spokesmen would alternatively state that the FBI was, and was not, involved in the case. Their activity...
...Harvard Information Transfer System (HITS) could function as a two-way closed circuit television system capable of carrying ten channels of video information and two channels of digital information to television monitors at Harvard. Potentially, the transmissions could serve academic, cultural, political and special interest groups...
Kothavala tendered his resignation last fall, before the present controversy built up, when he realized that the position of director would be primarily an administrative and budgetary function, not one which would allow for educational innovation. The question of how to use the Center was left to Dean Dunlop, who appointed a Faculty task force to consider the objections to the original plan and recommend a new program for how to use the building...
...whole charade will tell you, states of mind. The interrelationship between the two events is so directly drawn by so many people that one can't help but nurture some suspicions. The formal integrity seems extravagant-Woodstock's tacky dreams shimmer a little too loudly, while Altamont's function as some sociological reality principle is dramatically too neat. It seems like we've been treated to some show in which one character has been introduced only to be demolished by another's appearance, both acts completed to concerted applause...
Many older people have an entirely different reaction. Long-term exposure to the enervating heat appears to lessen their production of adrenaline, a hormone that maintains blood pressure and helps regulate cardiac function. The older folk become fatigued, apathetic and depressed. They may also become faint, thus contributing to the increased number of automobile accidents...