Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Huxtable is not gentle with the high-rise slum housing long favored by government urban renewal. Beauty and function can reinforce one another, she asserts. "It is a social and urban tragedy that those who recognize the urgency of our human problems see their solution only in terms of the total sacrifice of style...
...topic where the known facts present only a skeleton. For example, when discussing ribosomal structure, Watson says that "not even a semi-satisfactory hypothesis now exists for why ribosomes contain rRNA as well as protein." Nevertheless, in the next few sentences, Watson suggests a possible explanation for the function of rRNA at the ribosome; the reader who isn't satisfied with scientific ignorance is invited to consider Watson's opinions...
...same is true of the cities on the Continent. Rebuilt or refurbished since World War II, they gleam and they function. Crime is a frequent outrage, but not an epidemic. Police are not loved, but they are not the target of guerrilla warfare. Drug abuse is growing, but it is still an aberration, not a commonplace. In Paris, even the telephones seem to work better than in New York now, though that must surely be an illusion. All round, within easy commuting distance by clean, modern train, are the beauties and playgrounds of a wealthy, comfortable continent...
Cowboy Movies. "Those last years with Stalin were hard times," says Khrushchev. "The government virtually ceased to function. Stalin selected a small group which he kept close to him at all times." Another group was purposely-and ominously-uninvited. Says Khrushchev: "Any one of us could find himself in one group one day and the other group the next...
...know any reason to think that they're responsible- I think he's commented on it accurately. Nobody can know from the outside just what policy-making function these people have. They claim that they're just doing research, but I've read the minutes of one meeting of the Vietnam Studies Committee of SEADAG [Southeast Asia Development Advisory Group], the thing that Huntington headed, which purports to be just a scholarly outfit where people come do research on Southeast Asia...