Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of our stories are the result of a collaboration among many individuals, so that credit is difficult if not impossible to apportion. We have followed this method not out of any abstract devotion to what has sometimes been called group journalism, but because of TIME'S basic function, which is to organize the week's news and to interpret it in a systematic, orderly and relatively concise fashion. To carry out that function, we cannot simply print a collection of dispatches from various reporters. A TIME story is usually the work of one skilled writer who blends...
...report broadcast Tuesday by NBC had indicated that G. Alexander Heard, chancellor of Vanderbilt University, would tell the President that neither school would be able to function next year because of student unrest and that he would blame Vice-President Agnew's rhetoric for much of the unrest...
According to White, size has no bearing on the "essential feature" of a jury, which is to interpose "the common-sense judgment of a group of laymen" between the state and the accused. Said White: "The performance of this role is not a function of the particular number of the body which makes up the jury...
...Certain World inevitably awakens nostalgia for Auden's poetic voice, but that is not the book's nature or function. It is the poet's mind, not his work, that is on display. Auden's mind, seen through his reading, shows exceptionally broad learning and intellectual tolerance. The man is also quirky, traditionalist and playful with a patrician fondness for the recondite-whether in the lore of language or nature. His compilation belies the term "commonplace" with properly Audenesque irony...
...President Nixon's proposal to establish uniform national call-ups-thus ensuring that someone registered in Lubbock. Texas born on July 7 (number 365) will not be called in February just because his board has no one registered with a number under 275-then the system may begin to function approximately the way it is supposed...