Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terms of the day to day function of the Archdiocese, I really don't think it would make much difference," says Law. "In terms of my own personal life, it would mean a little more complicated schedule because there would be some responsibilities that would bring me more frequently to Rome...
...table, which arranges the elements according to their atomic number, is Levi's metaphor for the relationships that compose a human life. The Periodic Table consists of 21 episodes, most of them autobiographical, named after elements from argon to zinc, each with its relative density, characteristic properties and unique function in the author's remarkable life story...
...content of policy to be developed by his advisers. When they disagree, he generally relies on them to work out a compromise among themselves; he chooses between conflicting viewpoints only when he cannot avoid doing so. Thus, far more than most Presidents, he needs a strong supporting cast to function effectively...
Fair enough. It is part of the FDA's job to protect us from snake-oil salesmen. The Government quite rightly went to court to make Carter's Little Liver Pills stop implying that they had anything to do with liver function (they are now advertised as a laxative). And we now know that Lydia Pinkham's soothing syrup, once a favorite remedy for women's ills of all sorts, was 20% alcohol. The FDA argues, as do most doctors, that ineffective medications can be harmful because they tend to prevent a patient from seeking effective treatment...
...issued a report that called SUNY "an extreme example of what not to do in the management of public higher education." The report declared that SUNY is "the most overregulated university in the nation." The commission blamed the university's charter, which set up SUNY 36 years ago to function as a state agency, like New York's prisons, rather than as a quasi-independent entity, the status of institutions like the University of California...