Word: functioned
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...needed. Unless otherwise amended, though, a system of regional primaries would not increase the influence of party officials--which most analysts see as crucial. Still, the proposal is far more popular than the one-day national primary concept, which professors widely criticize for ignoring local differences, eliminating the "testing" function of a more drawn-out campaign, and giving even more influence to the media...
...superabundance of primaries has also led to the "decline of the traditional party function" of informing voters and of choosing experienced. strong standard-bearers," James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, contends. "The old-fashioned convention performs better than 35 or 40 primaries. They drive out viable candidates early if the media judges them to be lagging...
Selwyn R. Cudjoe, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, addressing the rally--which included members of all Third World organizations in the University--in front of Massachusetts Hall, labelled Harvard "a racist institution" and then responded to a heckler by saying, "The function of a racist institution is to train people like...
Industrialist Justin Dart, one of the most conservative members of Reagan's California coterie, seems dead right when he says, "No politician on the face of the earth can function without some compromises. But Ronald Reagan makes fewer than the others. The only compromises he will make as President are those that are forced on him." And Stuart Spencer, a top strategist on Reagan...
...spare aesthetic side are Radio On and Union City, two story films with rock references. Radio On (title signifying the primary mechanical function for properly operating a motor vehicle) was financed by Road Movies, the Wim Wenders film company. It comes as no surprise that the film is the British equivalent of the early Wenders movies, Alice in the Cities, Kings of the Road, and others. Punctuated by songs of David Bowie, Kraftwerk, Ian Dury, Lene Lovich and more, the black-and-white film follows the odyssey of a man in search of his brother's house, where an unexplained...