Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...panel also opted for partial disarmament of the powerful Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Chiefs now function in a triple role, serving not only as commanders of their respective services and as military advisers to the President but also as military staff in the chain of operational command between the Secretary of Defense and forces in the field. The Fitzhugh panel would relieve the chiefs of their operational responsibilities, reassign the job to a single senior military officer with a separate staff...
Tentatively called the Common Cause, it would function as a kind of superlobby, mobilizing widespread pressure to attack the national failures that have occupied Gardner since he left HEW and assumed leadership of the National Urban Coalition in 1968-inadequate housing, unemployment, poor education, poverty. "The purpose," he said, "should be to revitalize and needle both of the parties, and also to revitalize politics and Government at every level. The solutions aren't mysterious. Talk to any able city councilman, state assemblyman, Governor or mayor. City government is archaic. Most state governments are feeble. Congressional reform is a familiar...
...contrast, our Minuteman is designed for no such first-strike function. It exists for retaliatory strikes on "soft" tar gets such as Soviet cities. Given this purpose, the Minuteman is hardly small; with its accuracy, it is capable of destroying on a one-for-one basis - one missile, one city...
...films by the Panthers and student radicals is not yet highly evolved; yet at this stage, the function of films by liberation groups must be primarily dissemination of information. (As is the function of The Black Panther Community News Service and Women's Lib publications such as Off Our Backs.) Felix Greene's China and Inside North Vietnam are good examples of the documentary forms as the dissemination of information. American people have been told so many times that the Huntley-Brinkley Show which they are shot up with every night is "news" that the documentary and newsreel are more...
...assigned to psychiatric duty at Fort Knox. Because the Army sets the welfare of the unit above that of the individual, Switkes argued, the psychiatrist is forced to pervert his true role as a therapist. In military service, he says, "the well-adjusted personality becomes the one which can function within the unit, not the one at peace with itself...