Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the recession has cost radicals the leisure to protest, it has helped dramatize the plight of the poor and unemployed. It has increased public support for welfare reform, for extension of unemployment benefits, for higher Social Security payments. Thus the recession serves an educational function for the public at large, and it may help many of the reforms envisioned by liberals in the '60s to become enacted in the early...
Last week, as the astronauts came home, a grim earthquake struck California, and one scientist suggested that the quake was a function of the lunar eclipse. Retaliation, perhaps, for the little moonquakes precipitated by the astronauts. Scientists may argue the potency of the moon's gravitational pull, but for laymen there can be some comfort in the notion that the moon retains a bit of its mystery and strength...
Even if no student representatives are elected, the CRR can continue to function. As now constituted, it can operate with vacancies on the committee...
After the film, Aldrin spoke on astronaut training-including learning how not to fall and how to function in the diminished gravity of the moon. He also gave previews of such future space ventures as a space shuttle, which would return to earth for repeated...
This American is not ugly; he alone takes the trouble to learn the Lao language and culture, to discard his racist and culturally biased preconceptions and expectations. The work he does is very often merciful and humanitarian, although in Laos he does not function in an emergency comparable to India's or Pakistan...