Word: blueprinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Olympics seemed not so much a dream of what could be but a blueprint for what will be. Although the Soviet Union, East Germany and the United States finished one through three, respectively, in the medal hunt, a bevy of other countries--including the host country, South Korea--were not far behind in the medal standings...
...idea of an electronic virus was born in the earliest days of the computer era. In fact, it was Computer Pioneer John von Neumann who laid out the basic blueprint in a 1949 paper titled "Theory and Organization of Complicated Automata." If most of his colleagues found the idea that computer programs might multiply too fantastic to be taken seriously, they can be forgiven, for the paper predated the first commercial electronic computers by several years. But a handful of scientists quietly pursued Von Neumann's ideas, keeping them alive in the scientific literature until they sprang to life...
...short, Erdrich, 34, is not the sort of woolly regionalist who captivates critics with untamed energy and an earthy style. She seems to have a plan for her career; she obviously has a blueprint for her imagination. Although set in an earlier time, from 1912 to 1924, Tracks is part of a projected four-novel cycle that began with Love Medicine and The Beet Queen. Characters from the previous novels appear as youngsters in the new one. The narrative is again moved along by different voices carefully boxed in separate chapters...
...might as well as say it up front, right at the beginning: welfare is bad, very bad. That's the confession which David Ellwood, a good liberal proponent of welfare reform, is forced to make at the outset of his blueprint for change, Poor Support: Poverty in the American Family...
Taken together, these "conundrums" mentioned over and over again in the book provide compelling evidence for far-reaching reform of the current welfare system. And Ellwood's blueprint for change seems a sensible place for Congress to start...