Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps no budget is without some fat, but university officials argue that their unique function requires special standards of evaluation. "One of the peculiarities of education is that our customer is also our product," says University of Pennsylvania President Sheldon Hackney. "That confuses most analogies between universities and profit-making enterprises." In universities, notes Northwestern President Arnold Weber, all the money is ploughed into the operation: "We don't declare dividends; we don't give stock options to our administrators." Tuition increases, say officials, are driven by the universities' costs, and even at that, tuition income typically covers less than...
...definitely hurts to lose Billy as a competitor," Fish continued. "A unit can't function at its best when it has an internal disagreement. Quite obviously it's going to hurt to lose a player like Billy...
...been slighted in the treatment of various established academic disciplines, and perhaps these fields ought to give greater weight to women's views and issues. However, women's views and issues should not be treated as an independent field because, while it offers new approaches to existing disciplines, the function of Women's Studies is more one of criticism than of innovation...
...Oscars in theory. I see no reason why excellence in moviemaking should not be rewarded just as excellence in athletic performance or scientific achievement. Such awards should of course serve the purpose of celebrating those who have made a lasting contribution to art. But they should serve a higher function as well. Awards are not for those who receive them but for those who do not; they establish a cannon of taste, set a standard for quality in artistic achievement and defy the aspiring artist in the audience to come up with something better. Awards should be a self-effacing...
...another site in the body, outside the brain, that produces substantial amounts of dopamine: the inner core of the adrenal glands. By transferring dopamine-producing adrenal cells into the brain, Dr. Ignacio Madrazo and his colleagues hoped to replenish the supply of this neurotransmitter and thus restore normal function...