Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Curriculum Consultant Dr. Richard J. Merrill of California, livened his remarks with a list of "Pleasant and Unpleasant Surprises." A sampler of the Unpleasant: "Only 38% of nines and 49% of adults could time ten swings of a pendulum. Only 41% of 17s and 45% of adults knew the function of the placenta. Only 18% of 17s knew that nuclei are more dense than the rest of the atom; 93% thought that metal cans for food are made chiefly of tin." Among the Pleasant: "Ninety-two percent of nines and 98% of 13s know that a human baby comes from...
...total society and has an obligation to attack a broad range of social problems, if need be in ways that temporarily retard profits. Fletcher L. Byrom, chairman of Pittsburgh's Koppers Co., finds the idea that business exists only to make a profit as unsatisfactory as "saying that the function of living is to breathe." Charles F. Luce, chairman of metropolitan New York's Consolidated Edison, argues that managers must directly concern themselves with "whether Negroes and Puerto Ricans have decent jobs and housing and education." B.R. Dorsey, president of Gulf Oil, goes as far as to say that...
...always felt that TIME must be collectively responsible for everything in its pages. Our writers and correspondents are highly trained and expert. But they are backed by a system of research, editing and checking that gives their work the authority and endorsement of TIME as a whole. This basic function of TIME and this view of collective responsibility will not change, of course. That is one rea son why the majority of our stories will still be unsigned...
Useful Intelligence. Whatever the semantic distinctions involved, Lodge's unannounced function seems clear enough. Not only will he be able to keep an ear cocked for the useful intelligence that passes through the Holy See, but -more important, perhaps-he can tip the U.S. to any impending Vatican moves in such sensitive areas as Third World development and international peace. Conceivably, the Vatican might also help Washington find answers to some of the U.S.'s most troublesome problems, such as peace in Viet Nam and the fate of U.S. prisoners there...
...have been as overripe as Women in Love (TIME, April 13) or as sensation-seeking as The Fox. But at 31, Miles knows everything worth knowing about actors, if not about film. His water and fire symbols and andante flashbacks are modish and imprecise, but he makes his cast function with the proficiency and timing of a London rep company. With an accretion of under statements, Miles builds the universal tragedy of a family whose past consumes its future, that finds it far harder to acknowledge mistakes than to perpetuate them. His slow evocation of a vanished England is evident...