Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other times, he said, it was "extremely difficult to function" because of the School Committee, which has more direct influence on the daily running of the schools than any major urban school board in America...
...hoped-for cut-off date. On the other hand, it is expected to provide all kinds of public services-many of them money losing-that Americans have depended on for generations, and still depend on today. "The Postal Service," says the law, "shall have as its basic function the obligation to provide postal services to bind the nation together through the personal, educational, literary and business correspondence of the people." Yet "postal rates and fees shall provide sufficient revenues so that the total estimated income and appropriations to the Postal Service will equal, as nearly as practicable, total estimated costs...
...Allahabad found her guilty of campaign irregularities and deprived her of her seat in Parliament (TIME, June 23). Even before that, as Mrs. Gandhi noted in one speech last week, there had been threats to India's internal security. "Duly elected [state] governments have not been allowed to function, and in some cases force has been used to compel members to resign in order to dissolve lawfully elected assemblies," she declared. "Agitations have surcharged the atmosphere, leading to violent incidents." Although she did not mention the apparent attempt on her own life in March, when a Hindi newspaper editor...
...their way. The entrepreneur begins with a solid old structure that is well served by transportation facilities or on the fringes of desirable downtown areas. When architects come in to assess conversion problems, they have to take an approach contrary to all of their training; instead of form following function, function has to follow form. "We simply deal with what we find," says Boston Architect Paul McGinley of Anderson Notter Associates Inc. "The old building itself determines the kinds of spaces you make." When the plans are completed, says Architect Roger Lang of Boston's Stahl-Bennett...
Besides hammering share prices down, the recession almost destroyed the original and highly essential function of the stock market: that of enabling companies to raise capital. As the Dow Jones industrial average tumbled to a twelve-year low of 578 last December, investors' confidence was so shaken that hardly any companies could hope to raise money by selling newly issued stock. Now, with the Dow back to 855 (up 31 last week) and investor enthusiasm rising, American companies in search of funds are once more finding a market for new shares...