Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...University in the day-to-day hassles of running Harvard; budgets, student housing and power plants are important, but only as a means to "a greater end." In his first annual report, Bok noted that no president can produce blueprints for the whole school. He envisioned his function as an issue-raiser. "My role is not to decide academic issues," he states today, "but to see that the most important questions are identified...
...another important factor has been the resourcefulness of his medical team, led by an old wartime comrade, Dr. Bogdan Brecelj, 74. The physicians have relied increasingly on medical machinery ever since his kidney failure and the onset of pneumonia. Dialysis treatment, to replace the kidneys' blood-cleansing function, has been used since late February. Tito is also receiving oxygen, and is reportedly hooked up to a respirator, which forces air in and out of his fluid-filled lungs, and an external pacemaker to regulate his erratic heartbeat...
Leonard H. Ginsburg, a delegate from the University of Pennsylvania, said yesterday, "If according to Bok the student body is too diversified to be truly represented, how can the Faculty Council, which represents an equally diverse group, function correctly...
...council approves the recommendation, the ombudsman would "have as his or her sole function improving communication between the department and the public." Sullivan said the ombudsman might replace one of the present hearing examiners, lowering the cost of the plan...
...Twelve babies have no thyroid function at all--the doctors expected one," she said, attributing the rise to the low level radiation discharged by the plant...