Word: functions
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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With the election of its 2000-2001 board last week, the Black Students' Association (BSA) marked its commitment toward balancing its social function, emphasized in the past year, with its traditionally more assertive political role...
...professors with multiple appointments, assistants often function as chiefs of staff...
...According to Kevin L. Hartnett '03, the Store 23 philosophy extends beyond the store itself: "It's in the essence of its very products. Anything you buy from Store 23 will only function for 23 hours a day at best." One night, when Hartnett and a few friends attempted to engage in some illicit activity involving tobacco of a green hue, he desperately tried to light up with a newly-purchased Store 23 lighter. "Despite our best efforts it would just spark and spark but give no chronic flame!" Hartnett laments. Apparently, the lighter conked out at approximately the same...
...Free market conservatives on Capitol Hill, for example, believe the IMF has come to function as a safety net for bad investment decisions, and that investors and governments will continue acting recklessly as long as they can depend on a bailout...
...Clinton administration accepts the basic premise and function of the IMF, but believes the institution is too bureaucratic, inefficient and insensitive to the specifics of crisis situations that erupt periodically. They want the institution reformed to make it more transparent and more responsive to the fast-changing needs of the global financial system, and more sensitive to the humanitarian dimension of currency collapse in developing countries...