Word: framework
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these international activities fit into the framework of the eighth annual Oktoberfest--the stated purpose of Sunday's festivities...
...person is presumed guilty until his urine indicates otherwise. And should he refuse to take one of these "voluntary" drug tests, he obviously has something to hide, is thus immediately suspect, and is assumed guilty. Perhaps the President's remedy will prove more of a threat to the framework of American society than the original problem...
Sollors concurred, saying that compared to 20 years ago, there is now "no common framework of assumptions" that would allow the wide variety of new literature to converge with works traditionally considered classics...
...become increasingly entangled. The growth of ties between universities and government has been one of the most significant changes in higher education in this country in the past 50 years. And the links between scholars and policy makers are here to stay. In this atmosphere educators need an ethical framework that both preserves the academic freedom of those scholars working with the government and allows universities to involve themselves in public debates and decisions without mortgaging their institutional independence...
...symposium called "The Changing American Electorate: Democracy and Public Opinion from 1936-1986," Shattuck Professor of Government James Q. Wilson, Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53 and Eaton Professor of the Science of Government Emeritus Samuel H. Beer discussed the historical framework of American voter participation and investigated how voters acted in the Roosevelt and Reagan elections...