Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Historical Commission. If the staff finds the building architecturally significant or important, in the context of its neighborhood, a public hearing can be held, the demolition delayed up to six months, and, if sufficient interest develops, the City Council may designate the building a protected landmark. One function of this procedure is to allow public input in development decisions and prevent unanticipated destruction of significant building. This is a public process that Harvard must participate in, and it is in no way to be confused with the purposes of the National Register study...
...museum officially reopened to the public but lacked sufficient funds to display its exhibits. As a result, the University closed the public galleries and rented most of the building's space to the Center for International Affairs. Despite financial neglect by the University, the museum continued to function on a research center for Semitic studies and its collections swelled with newfound materials from excavations in the Middle East...
...most of his life, Iacocca says frankly, his politics have been a function of his class. "When we were poor," he writes in the book, "we were Democrats. But when times were good, we were Republicans." As recently as the 1970s he called himself a Republican, and two years ago he was approached about the job of Transportation Secretary by the Reagan Administration. "I'd happily serve a President on either side to run economic policy," he says. "I would like to be the economic...
...explanation. He is powerful, a VIP, yet his bullish candor reminds people of a pal at the local tavern who calls 'em as he sees 'em. He is feisty and anti-Establishment, but his patriotism makes that posture seem safe and red-blooded. Partly, his popularity is a function of the times: two-fisted capitalism is in vogue. After a long period of feeling cranky and skeptical, the country seems in the mood to have a hero or two. Moreover, his life embodies just the kind of happy ending that Americans like to celebrate: he had reverses, he fought back...
...things about the MX missile that detractors rarely criticize is the way it performs. Though still an experimental weapon (its full name is Missile Experimental), in seven operational tests the MX has given every indication that it can ably carry out its assigned function: conveying up to ten nuclear warheads to separate targets over ranges that exceed 8,000 miles. The missile, which is 71 ft. long, 92 in. in diameter and weighs 190,000 lbs. at launch, fires through four stages. In the final phase, a 4-ft.-long "bus," steered by an on-board guidance system and small...