Word: functioned
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...Committee's rules permit each student facing charges to bring one "student or academic advisor." My function as an advisor was entirely limited to reporting; as I told the three-man fact-finding panel, I came as an advisor because "it was the only way I could get into the meeting." Previous hearings have been closed to press and public...
...Sheppard's hearing was never held. Wilson asked Bishop at the beginning what his function was Bishop replied that he was "advising" Sheppard by reporting for the CRIMSON. Wilson said, "We allow advisers to come but not reporters...
Unrest is a function of Yugoslav political culture. The young people there occupy a unique position. They live between East and West, between two ideological extremes: "the exploitative, late capitalistic system and bureaucratic, bloc socialism," as an economics professor...
...claiming direct links between U.S. economic interests and political policy as Harry Magdoff has recently done in The Age of Imperialism, Williams focused on the ideology of intellectual, political, and business leaders. By 1898, a consensus view had emerged, to the effect "that the system of entrepreneurial capitalism could function successfully only if the marketplace constantly expanded." This conviction necessarily caused military and diplomatic involvements in defense of our overseas interests, although, as Gar Alperovitz has said, the ideological and economic threads have become too tangled now to argue a simple cause and effect sequence...
Kelman and Ptashne focused their criticism of the Cambridge Project on its Defense Department sponsorship. "It is the function of the University-and especially of its social scientists-," Kelman argued, "to engage in independent critical analysis of the society, including the role of the military within that society. There is some concern that commitments on the order of the Cambridge Project would weaken the University's capacity for such independent analysis...