Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President did not fire Butz then and there in part because Butz claimed, incorrectly, that he had been quoted out of context and that he had actually said something like "Things have come a long way since the days when a ward politician could say ..." before delivering his bomb. Moreover, Ford hates to make decisions under pressure. More important, he is genuinely fond of the Secretary. ("We think alike," the President once said. "I love to work with him.") Not least of all, Ford was afraid that firing Butz would hurt his election chances in the key farm states...
Rough Edges. This odd, disjointed Down Under western tries to duplicate the rough edges of a folk ballad, placing Morgan's exploits in a context that is both romantic and social. Much time is expended depicting the primitive qualities of colonial justice, while government authorities are depicted, predictably, as brutal lunatics. Superintendent Cobham of the Victorian police (played with flush, fruity menace by Frank Thring) supervises Morgan's eventual capture and execution, then ships his head to an anatomy professor in Melbourne. The professor has a curious theory-he thinks Morgan could be half ape. The superintendent keeps...
...this context, it will be extremely difficult to find a replacement for Leonard. Without ready access to Bok, the new affirmative action officer might have difficulty enforcing the letter and the spirit of the guidelines. And at a time when not only Harvard academics, but, less blatantly. President Bok, appear to be abandoning advocacy of the government plan, and active support of Leonard, this seems especially true...
...this context, the proposals put forward by the United Automobile Workers in their just-concluded contract negotiations with the Ford Motor Company are an encouraging sign. Under the tentative agreement with Ford, auto workers will receive 13 paid days off per year, in addition to the 33 holiday and vacation days they already receive off. This section of the contract--Ford's opposition to it prompted the 22-day strike against the company on September 14--is a conscious first step for the union in its future plans for the auto industry. The increase in paid days off, union officials...
Both candidates occasionally seemed to ignore the context of the questions, veering sharply away from the subject to emphasize issues of their own choosing. But both scored some solid debating points. While Carter criticized Ford's record of 56 vetoes in his two years in the White House as an example of "government by stalemate," the President claimed that F.D.R. had averaged 55 vetoes a year, Harry Truman 38 and Carter himself, as Governor of Georgia, between 35 and 40. (All such averages, of course, fail to gauge the significance of the measures vetoed...