Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Discussions regarding the U.N. inevitably force us to see beyond our communities to the world around us and that's what allows us to function better within our own communities," said Deepti Choubey '98, president of IRC, who helped to organize the event...
...daunting resemblance to a hardcover sourcebook for a cognitive neuroscience course, with its nine MLA-referenced essays and smattering of graphs. Based upon materials presented at a three-day conference that was sponsored at Harvard in 1994 by the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative, the collection would certainly function well as a supplement to the coursework of any History of Science concentrator. For students of the humanities, Harrington delivers just enough of the promised interdisciplinary exploration to illuminate the placebo mystery without drowning the reader in technical terminology...
...alphabet soup of terms lurk and psychosomatic explorations abound. Abandon all hope, ye who wrestled with the QRR and plan to enter here: inverse relations and normalized sets of data concerning placebo efficacy literally pepper the pages. Authors Donald D. Price and Howard L. Fields even include an exponential function describing the placebo effect (Feeling intensity = Desire x Expectation...
Established three years ago, the Flemming Fellows Leadership Institute Program selects 35 state leaders for a series of retreats and panels. The purpose of the program is to define the function of policy makers in the '90s and into the next century, as well as to discuss alternative ideas to create and implement public policy...
...early allegiance to the Republicans was a function of resistance and of pride, not of political principles. It was because I was raised in a liberal Jewish family in New York City and we were long-standing Democrats, the descendants of relatively recent immigrants, that it was novel to be a Republican. It was because I attended the United Nations International School for seven years, where I was one of about seven kids in my class born in the U.S.A., that I was particularly amenable to Republican patriotism. It was Reagan's image as an uplifting, all-American leader that...