Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...former senior Washington official found the intelligence failure unbelievable. Reconnaissance by satellite as well as by manned and drone aircraft can pick up vehicles, road activity, defense positions and many other telltale clues as to whether or not a camp is occupied. If, as Laird suggested, intelligence cannot function any better than it did at Son Tay, disturbing questions arise about the thousands of targets bombed by the U.S., North and South, throughout the war. The raiders found waist-deep grass around the compound; from the evidence, General Manor concluded that Son Tay had been abandoned for several weeks...
Huxtable is not gentle with the high-rise slum housing long favored by government urban renewal. Beauty and function can reinforce one another, she asserts. "It is a social and urban tragedy that those who recognize the urgency of our human problems see their solution only in terms of the total sacrifice of style...
...topic where the known facts present only a skeleton. For example, when discussing ribosomal structure, Watson says that "not even a semi-satisfactory hypothesis now exists for why ribosomes contain rRNA as well as protein." Nevertheless, in the next few sentences, Watson suggests a possible explanation for the function of rRNA at the ribosome; the reader who isn't satisfied with scientific ignorance is invited to consider Watson's opinions...
Cowboy Movies. "Those last years with Stalin were hard times," says Khrushchev. "The government virtually ceased to function. Stalin selected a small group which he kept close to him at all times." Another group was purposely-and ominously-uninvited. Says Khrushchev: "Any one of us could find himself in one group one day and the other group the next...
...know any reason to think that they're responsible- I think he's commented on it accurately. Nobody can know from the outside just what policy-making function these people have. They claim that they're just doing research, but I've read the minutes of one meeting of the Vietnam Studies Committee of SEADAG [Southeast Asia Development Advisory Group], the thing that Huntington headed, which purports to be just a scholarly outfit where people come do research on Southeast Asia...