Word: frameworks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discussions focused mainly on procedural matters that could provide the framework of a Geneva Conference. The Israelis favored an agenda to discuss three points: establishment of diplomatic relations, cultural exchanges, and the freedom of the Suez Canal and other waterways. The Egyptians proposed instead to prepare a "declaration of principles" that would form a basis for detailed negotiations at a full-scale conference later...
...Chinese drink so little milk one feels, reading, as if it were all too neat. Like those three-dimensional wooden puzzle pieces, his arguments are intricately constructed and can only be arrnaged one way (out of the millions of possible permutations). One is so conscious of this deterministic framework that it is hard to avoid the question: "How much of this is history and how much Harris...
...allies just when a leftist victory in next spring's elections appeared to be possible. They seem to have severed the alliance because they are unwilling to share power-thus confirming doubts in some quarters about the sincerity of the Eurocommunists' eagerness to work within the democratic framework...
...moments of the play one of the men, seated at the piano, unfurls his tresses to reveal that he is actually a she. So, it turns out, are all of his companions. Thus at the very last moment we are left to ponder the play in a surprise twisted framework...
...three fictional New York City families, following their his tories from 1880 to 1900. There are the poor Irish immigrants, the middle-class clergyman's family and the railroad-and bank-owning aristocrats. Real events, such as the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883, provide the framework for each episode. The scriptwriters, unhappily, are responsible for the rest...