Word: functions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dean added that he doesn't think quality of education is a function of the size of a class, noting, "There is no escape in a bad small class...
...they are so-called bearer bonds and therefore do not carry the name of the owner. Gambling casinos are surging in part because they are convenient places to spend cash. Says Albert W. Merck, a member of New Jersey's casino control commission: "A casino fills a fascinating function in an economy where there is a lot of unrecorded money. It is a place to put undeclared cash...
This is especially true in state and local courts, where most of American justice is meted out. "In some ways we now function just as we did in the days of Charles Dickens," says Judge James Lynch, chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court...
That fact will affect every facet of your academic life here, from the courses you take to the grades you get to the amount you actually end up learning from it all. For starters, if you are the type who learns best in small groups--if you function most easily in the give-and-take of the classroom--you're out of luck. The bulk of Harvard education is of the mass-production, assembly-line variety. Oh, there are tutorials and House seminars and colloquia and conference courses and independent studies. But by their nature--and Harvard's unwillingness...
Clay Felker, returning in 1977 as a majority owner of the magazine he had once worked on, portentously declared that the "new Esquire" would provide the civilizing function for today's professional or managerial man"- a kind of Madison Avenue gibberish that could only confuse readers. He added a lot of business stones. But Esquire's genes caught up with Felker: "I made the mistake of trying to change the magazine too much...