Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...function of the huge congress was more formal than real. It was to rubber-stamp decisions already made by the party's leaders and carefully advertised in advance. Still, every effort was being made to make it a showcase event and to prepare the country for the changeover. The congress was also expected to consider new laws on marriage, income tax and foreign investment, and was likely to approve a measure limiting the length of time one individual can hold any given public office. In a highly unusual gesture of openness, the foreign press was invited to attend some...
When a government proves to function in a social vacuum, the process of putting it away is more of a problem. Short of war there are words of protest, but in the middle distance the assassin has free rein. The rein might be shortened considerably if the words of protest were harsher or more frequent, or, better still, if they were attached to an economic quarantine. To treat killer governments as pariahs would only be fair, after all, and the purpose of a quarantine is to prevent contagion. To date, however, the world seems to be going on the hope...
...That year, at a session on nucleic acids, researchers first voiced what was to become a national concern over the technology's possible dangers in creating new life forms. Among the most pregnant research areas taken up at this year's Gordon conferences: the structure and function of "endogenous opiates," pain-killing chemicals produced by the body itself, and the new field of bioelectrochemistry that is beginning to draw attention with the recent discovery that electric currents sometimes help knit stubborn bone fractures...
...fifth act, as a model of saintly sanity (again inaccurate history on the playwright's part). From what he has to do in the role it is impossible to gauge the acting ability of Michael O'Hare, but he does possess a warm and beautiful voice. His main function is to fight Richard to the death. So we have Moriarty, Dartmouth '63, pitted against O'Hare, Harvard '74. After too brief a bit of swordplay, Harvard wins and will ascend the throne as Henry...
Still, therapists are encountering more tricky cases in which sexual difficulties are tied to psychological problems, as opposed to Masters and Johnson's emphasis on sex as a behavioral "natural function." Says Kevin Gordon of the Human Sexuality Program at the University of California at San Francisco: "The symptoms are part of larger issues-like anger in a marriage. It's all very complicated...