Word: framer
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...cyberspace as cold and anonymous as it is reputed to be? Members of the WELL, a San Francisco-based computer bulletin board, recently found out. On June 29, Adele Framer, who calls herself tigereye, posted a message: "Kathleen Johns((t))on kj on the WELL, who's housebound in the final stages of cancer, could use a little help with light meals once or twice a week." The following are excerpts from the exchange that followed. KJ herself is noticeably absent. She was in no shape to take part in a message board...
Among the symptoms of L.A.'s post-traumatic stress disorder are uncontrollable flashbacks, nightmares, hypervigilance and anger about the lack of control over one's life, according to Mory Framer, clinical director of the ! Barrington Psychiatric Center, which treated more than 1,000 victims. The Northridge quake left two special psychological scars because it came in the early hours when people were at home and in bed, thus transforming those two refuges into places of lethal danger. "Here we are, supposed to go back to our homes and back to our beds, but now it is frightening there," says Framer...
According to Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61, a framer of the last two administrations' economic policies, industrial regulation and protectionism are detrimental to the free-market system and thus decrease economic activity. However, the difficulties that Eastern European countries are having in creating a free market would indicate that it is a sort of perpetual motion machine. The question, even for the hundreds of "Future Economic Policy Gurus"--the Economics Department's name for future Marty Feldsteins--who swallow his supply-side gospel each week, is how to start...
Whatever the political consequences, the Constitution does grant Congress -- and Congress alone -- the power to declare war. The reason was clearly explained by James Madison, a key framer of that document who went on to become President. "The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates," wrote Madison in 1798, "that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care vested the question of war in the Legislature...