Word: blueprinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Poignantly, these events are occurring just after a meeting of the nation's bishops that endorsed a blueprint for stepped-up evangelism among blacks. A special report to the hierarchy warned that experts are deeply concerned about attrition among black Catholics "leaving the church for Protestant denominations where they will feel more at home." As developments in the two cities indicate, the losses could just be beginning...
...semantics of Arab-Israeli diplomacy, where "evenhanded" and "honest broker" have often meant quite the opposite, last week's curtain- raising U.S. initiative promised an overdue turn to reality. Secretary of State James Baker, in presenting the Bush Administration's first blueprint for the peace process, did not announce a shift in American policy. But he did offer no-frills clarity and a finely balanced call for concessions from both sides. In a sharp and wise departure from Reagan-era practice, his speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, the most influential pro-Israel lobby, eliminated...
...quite a remarkable achievement," says David Howekamp of the Environmental Protection Agency. Adds Richard Ayres, chairman of the National Clean Air Coalition: "It's a bold attempt to grapple with the real pollution problems." The EPA is expected to approve the Los Angeles plan and use it as a blueprint for a federal program that will include cities like Chicago and New York...
...snippet of DNA might read ACGGTAGAT, a message that researchers can decipher rather easily. It codes for a sequence of three of the 20 varieties of amino acids that constitute the building blocks of proteins. But the entire genome of even the simplest organism dwarfs that snippet. The genetic blueprint of the lowly E. coli bacterium, for one, is more than 4.5 million base pairs long. For a microscopic yeast plant, the length is 15 million units. And in a human being, the genetic message is some 3 billion letters long...
...report goes beyond Shattuck's previous initiatives in outlining a blueprint for specific changes in federal policy...