Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American work force is being downsized and atomized. As the Scottish farmers were torn away from the soil, millions of Americans are being evicted from the working worlds that have sustained them, the jobs that gave them not only wages and health care and pensions but also a context, a sense of self-worth, a kind of identity. Work was the tribe. There were Sears men and GM workers and Anheuser-Busch people. There still are, of course. But their world is different...
...want to do mine in a comprehensive way," Epps said yesterday. "You have to provide historical context, and have to show the events of the time...
Councillor Jonathan S. Myers, the first speaker on the issue, opened the debate with objections to both the context of the ordinance and the way in which SPOA was dealing with the issue...
...circumventing the executive board. I told McCann that the board had voted as on a policy of not endorsing candidates. Years ago, this was enacted because of sharp differences in individual member's political leanings. However, McCann apparently took this as a recent development, not in the historical context to which I was alluding. Unfortunately, The Crimson reporter who authored the article contacted board members (and obtained their quotes) under the pretense that I had said the current board voted on this matter, this would have been false. After interviewing McCann and then other board members. I was finally contacted...
Props and effects keep a low profile. Slides conjure up a context for the action, permitting simple, impressionistic sets. This in turn gives full reign to the actors...