51.   But can one piece of equipment perform both functions well?

52.   But robots are becoming involved in an increasing array of industries, performing functions from painting refrigerators to molding plastic to packaging nail polish.

53.   Buttons and dials perform more functions, and because radios must share dashboard space with other devices, including satellite navigation systems, they have gotten smaller as well.

54.   Chase handles much of its mortgage business in Tampa, Fla., while Chemical performs that function in Cleveland.

55.   Colt was convinced that machines could be adapted to perform those functions, but the cost of such machines was prohibitive.

56.   Commercial broadcasting at its best cannot be expected to perform such functions.

57.   Conscripted as an army medic during World War II, he offered Communion to the faithful though he had been forbidden to perform priestly functions.

58.   Disease can perform functions like killing old or weak trees and releasing nutrients for other plants to use.

59.   Drivers who have difficulty performing this function may have difficulty applying the brake.

60.   DSP technology is used for audio compression and text-to-speech translation, and new DSP chips can be programmed to perform communications functions as well.