Word: framework
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Finally, tax reform of the type the Treasury recently proposed provides a framework within which revenue can be raised, the incentives for good economic performance strengthened and overall tax fairness improved. I disagree with many specific features of the Treasury's proposal, particularly those that would hurt incentives for saving and business investment. But I believe that there is substantial virtue in the basic notion of changing the tax rules in a way that permits reducing currently high tax rates and simplifying compliance for the vast majority of taxpayers. It should not be difficult to design a tax reform that...
Whitemore's use of soliloquies in a realistic framework brings his competence as a playwright into serious question. The tone and execution of the play strive for realism, but Whitemore undercuts it with the formal monologue--one of the most contrived devices in the dramatist's handbook. Simple reminiscences intended to add dimension to the characters, these solo speeches instead subtract from the play's impact...
Other academics soon entered the fray. At the University of Bielefeld, in West Germany, Historian Hans-Ulrich Wehler had received The Collapse of the Weimar Republic to evaluate, as part of Abraham's rite of passage to tenure. Wehler disliked what he called the dogmatic framework of the book and would not recommend tenure. Turner, meanwhile, circularized colleagues, sending them several of Abraham's quotations, together with underlying source documents that seemed contradictory. For example, Abraham cited Banker Hjalmar Schacht as calling the Nazis "the positive force" and telling associates "we should contribute to them and their efforts." Actually, Schacht...
Conable, who had studied medieval history at Cornell and American history throughout his adult life, suddenly had live figures to fit into an intellectual framework. He recalls thinking on that day in 1965 that Johnson was "a kinetic personality" who believed he could find an answer to every problem. In Viet Nam it was "victory." Johnson would simply order a Government agency into action, get money appropriated and then wait for the war to be won. Conable's knowledge of history made him wonder. Some problems, like wars, simply had no solutions, and successful leaders understood that. Johnson...
...here begins a series of stories within stories, which involve fierce battles heroic quests heartrending tragedies and glorious unions. The surreal elements in the story blur the distinction between the more realistic and fantastic stories within the larger framework...