Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...firm rhetoric, fluently delivered after four rehearsals and some coaching from image maven Roger Ailes, radiated statesmanship. A compromise, he maintained, was needed not only for the country's economic health but also to permit the U.S. "to function effectively as a great power abroad" -- a potent argument at a time when 100,000 U.S. soldiers are in harm's way in Saudi Arabia. If the negotiations stopped, Bush said, he would demand a decisive vote by Sept. 28 on a comprehensive Administration package. If that failed, he warned, the Gramm-Rudman sequester would ravage public services...
...Brown, the police commissioner brought from Houston by Dinkins to lead the 26,000-officer force, acknowledges the anxiety. "The top priority has to be public safety," says Brown. "That's the basic function of government." But with violent deaths mounting so quickly that the homicide record of 1,905 set last year appears likely to be broken, the ability of Brown and Dinkins to restore security to the city's streets is in doubt...
...producer wouldn't play along. Angrily, Mackintosh declared that Equity had created "a poisonous atmosphere in which creativity and artistic freedom cannot function or survive." He then dealt the coup de grace: "If Equity is unwilling to take steps to ensure that reason and fairness prevail, then I have no choice but to cancel Miss Saigon." Gone, for the moment, were the other Saigon roles that would have employed 29 Asian and Asian-American actors. Frozen, for the nonce, was the record $25 million the show had banked in advance ticket sales. Like the event it put to music, Miss...
...typical jazz film; it does not attempt to glorify the individual achievement of some famous musician. Neither is the film a particularly strong statement about the relationship between Black and (mainstream) American society. So what is Mo' Better Blues about? In one sense, it is certainly about the powerful function of the family in modern human society. In another, it is a film based on a tried and true Hollywood formula...
...being able to track down information and think of new ways to argue a case." Says AFL-CIO lawyer Walter Kamiat, once a clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall: "In most chambers, the Justices are looking for all the perspectives in a case. I did not feel it was my function to insert my views in opinions, but it was my responsibility to raise any issues I saw." Justice Department lawyer James Feldman, who clerked for Justice William Brennan, believes that "clerks are more important in the details of how the opinions are written than in how the cases are decided...