Word: framework
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reconsider the 1984 Orange Bowl. But suppose there was no second-ranked Auburn. Then the only teams remaining in the national championship framework are Miami and Nebraska. And still no overtime...
...other times they have appeared willing not to link the issues, letting Reagan have an agreement and a summit without his having to make any concessions on SDI. Their current position is ambiguous -- and therefore flexible. Currently they are proposing an "INF-plus" summit. The plus would be a "framework agreement" on START and SDI -- not a full treaty, but an outline of its main provisions, notably including testing limits...
...typical bid package ran to nearly 20,000 pages, weighed three tons and filled scores of boxes. In one competition a consortium headed by Rockwell International and another led by McDonnell Douglas are battling for a $2 billion to $3 billion contract to build the space station's framework, air locks and guidance and communications systems...
...money. The diversion became a diversion of its own, distracting attention from the thornier basic issues involved. The messy, demanding job of weighing a policy -- several policies, really -- and passing judgment gave way to the tidier task of searching for a smoking gun. There was even a ready-made framework from an earlier, dissimilar, scandal: What did the President know...
...officials say they have no formal indication that the Soviets are trying to make an INF deal contingent on a framework involving SDI. "They are making tougher noises on INF," says a high-ranking Administration official, "but I have no sense that they are relinking." Another U.S. official close to the Geneva talks views Moscow's moves as typical presummit posturing. "Shock diplomacy is what they specialize in," says he. "Backtracking on ) INF linkage would be consistent with the kind of shell game we've come to expect...