Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stated purpose of the report is to discuss a number of questions relating to the real nature and function of the University-an understanding of which the Governance Committee must have if it is to proceed with any confidence in rearranging Harvard's actual decision-making process. Though the report does refer to questions which have plagued the University for several years now, it makes no attempt to propose specific changes...
While stating quite clearly that the University's primary function is to search for truth, the report admits that this ideal has been strayed away from, resulting in the University's subservience to a "buyer's market" created by the government and large industries. Because of this, it says, students have been turned out as "products" for the technological demands...
...located at the base of the brain, was an organ for the secretion of waste material. He could not have been more wrong. Though one of the smallest of man's hormone producers, the pituitary is the master gland. It exercises control or influence over virtually every biological function-including growth-by manufacturing substances that help control the other glands and organs. Thus an underactive pituitary in a child can arrest bodily development and produce a form of dwarfism. Last week a discovery was announced that could not only enable doctors to treat more cases of this disorder...
...North Carolina's innovating work-release" program (also common in federal prisons) sends 1,000 promising inmates into the free world each day to function normally as factory workers, hospital attendants, truck drivers. Another 45 prisoners are day students at nearby colleges; one did so well that he got a faculty job offer...
...inconvenienced more than 131 people exactly so that the Faculty can function next semester, I apologize," Dunlop said...