Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...denied that the Senate's rejection of Nixon's two nominees represented discrimination against Southern candidates. "Right now Justice [Hugo L.] Black is the only Southerner on the Court and he certainly does not fulfill the function the President foresees for his nominee...
...more, too, and seemed much more confident when speaking. One of the first things that strikes you when you visit a Scientology center is the smiling good cheer, friendliness, and poise of the people. Something works-whether it's the techniques, the power of positive thinking, or simply a function of investing so much time and money in a project that you become determined to succeed, only Scientologists know...
...MIRVs as much as an agreement that limits ABMs. The Soviet Union presently leads in the deployment of ABMs, though few experts consider its 64-silo Galosh system around Moscow a genuine threat to U.S. retaliatory power. The Russians acknowledged during the preliminary negotiations that ABMs, though defensive in function, are tied to the question of mutual deterrence and should therefore be included in SALT discussions. U.S. negotiators considered that admission an important diplomatic step...
...trial, the disruptions had taken on an entirely different tone. The book's most important function may be in showing the progression from the Yippic outbursts of the first few days to the bitter protests of all the defendants at the end of the trial...
...Britain, the minister himself takes on this judicial function and polices his own department. Though he was once responsible to Parliament for his conduct, the party system ended that. Only the remote possibility that he would harm the party's success in the next general claxon would deter his abuses...