Word: functioned
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Ozone, a highly unstable union of three oxygen atoms, provides the vital function of absorbing most of the sun's ultraviolet radiation. It is continuously being formed in the stratosphere, when regular oxygen molecules interact with ultraviolet radiation...
...puzzled by everything that was going on in Moscow, there was no mood of crisis in the Soviet capital. The two younger Politburo members who are most frequently mentioned as possible successors to Chernenko certainly did not seem to be worried. Grigori Romanov, 61, flew off to attend a function in Ethiopia, and Mikhail Gorbachev, 53, left on an official visit to neighboring Bulgaria. They would hardly have left town if a power struggle were under way in the Kremlin...
Churches were able to function, under tight supervision, until all religious groups were banned during the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath (1966-76). Even the T.S.P.M. vanished. Thousands of clergy and church members were shipped to labor camps, and perhaps hundreds were executed. But underground Protestantism not only survived but grew into the house-church movement...
...pound PC Portable is similar in function and capability to the PC, but is a one-piece unit that folds into an oversized brief case...
...really negligent" about seeing doctors, says ex-Wife Alice Kasman Fixx. According to Dr. Kenneth Cooper, founder of the Aerobics Center in Dallas, Fixx may have been running from the truth. Last December, while testing a number of other runners, Cooper urged his friend to have his heart function evaluated with a treadmill stress test, but "for reasons known only to himself," Fixx refused. "The second most common symptom of coronary disease, after angina, is denial," observes Winslow. For long distance runners like Jim Fixx, it can be fatal...