Word: context
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This is the context that already last spring, led us at the World Economic Forum to make responsible globality the theme of this year's annual meeting in Davos. Of course there have been a lot of comments--gleeful or disappointed--about the globalization process being stalled or even in retreat and looking at the crisis as a setback for global capitalism. The actions taken by some economies to protect themselves from the vagaries of gigantic short-term capital flows swinging wildly on the basis of the herd instinct would seem to be a case in point...
...might note, incidentally, that Beecher's 1970 book, Research and the Individual (Little, Brown), hardly mentioned radiation experiments. He had worse fish to fry. Clearly, this is another case in which the ethical sensibilities of an earlier time have been made to look bad in the context of today's standards...
When I see regrettable attempts to sully their reputations without setting the context, I think to myself, "There, but for the grace...
...context of Somerville's welfare-to-workprogram, Gay has expressed concern for therepresentation of women in industrial jobs likeconstruction work. She advocates making surefemale former welfare recipients are steeredtoward non-clerical vocational positions...
...another reason for De Vere's alleged secrecy. The sonnets, he says, may have started as a playful artifice in courting the Earl of Southampton to marry De Vere's daughter, but they evolved into a dense homoeroticism. All the more reason to keep his authorship secret. (In this context there is a telling silence in Richard II. The historic King was notorious for a homosexual affair with the earl's ancestor Robert de Vere. Shakespeare's play begins after that affair is over, with no mention of the relative.) Thus while the earl lived, he hid behind the name...