But it's a productive, candid, functional relationship.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

The objectives are to quantify the ocean soundscape on global scales, determine behavioral change thresholds of various species, and examine the functional relationship between sound and the viability of key marine organisms, at an individual scale, a species scale and the ecosystem level.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

"Notwithstanding the significant differences between our governments, we continue to believe it important to seek a functional and more productive relationship with Venezuela based on issues of mutual interest, " he said.

CNN: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dies

By the '70s he was combining the practical technology and functional rationalism of modernist practice with a more conscious relationship of a building to its culture and community.

WSJ: Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling, Architect and Teacher, at the Yale Center for British Art | Postmodernism's Pivotal Figure | By Ada Louise Huxtable