Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...utilitarian judgments in cases of discipline. Though concerned with the consistent administration of principle, it is far more concerned with the preservation of peace. Thus, for what appear as lesser violations, graver punishments can be handed out; the action is justified in that it best serves the continued peaceable function of the University. Though OBU might have seized the Faculty Club, broken into University Hall, and mauled policemen, the consequences of their dismissal would have been too damaging to the University to allow the Committee to take such action. It is essential to the preservation of this university that...
...said that several groups have already asked Faculty members to speak at the spring demonstrations during the week of April 13-18. One function of the new ad hoc Faculty committee might be to find speakers for the rallies, he said...
...market, to methadone, a synthetic substitute that can be made available legally for about 150 for a day's dosage. Administered as part of a total rehabilitation program involving counseling and therapy, methadone eases heroin withdrawal and blocks heroin's euphoric effects. This enables an addict to function normally and hold a job, something that few heroin users can do. But methadone itself is addictive, which means that those who use it must either be helped to taper off from the synthetic, or continue their habit for the rest of their lives. Methadone advocates maintain that this...
...films. One notes the familiar traits of his camerawork: shots that track across a situation rather than into characters; telephoto lenses used at certain points to achieve selective depth of field, so that he can pull focus from a character in the foreground to the background. Beyond their narrative function, these techniques turn the background from a spatially articulated field of objects into a flat surface of colors. The only place where objects are distinct from one another is in the son's bedroom. Elsewhere we see behind the characters a single plane which is frequently out of focus...
...radiation bomb which blinds the prophet and isolates him from all guidance except that of his own prophetic sense. Relying on prescience alone, he walks an unerring path until the crisis, when his prophecies desert him and he must be rescued by his allies. But he has lost his function, for he can no longer trust his prophecies or guide his followers. His terrible purpose fulfilled, he steps free of history and walks to a lonely death in the desert, following the Fremen code that blind men must not burden the tribe...