Word: frameworks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the questions it was clear that the Justices were struggling to adapt the most perplexing social questions into a manageable legal framework. They were obviously not comfortable. Justice Lewis Powell, normally the most courteous of Virginia gentlemen, uncharacteristically attacked Colvin: "We are here primarily to hear a constitutional argument," he said softly. "You have devoted 20 minutes to belaboring the facts, if I may say so. I would like help, I really would, on the constitutional issues...
...crystalline substances like silicon. Sir Nevill Mott, 72, former head of the famed Cavendish Laboratory at England's Cambridge University, provided the theoretical underpinnings of modern solid-state physics in the 1920s. His later work with amorphous materials led to development of the "Mott model," a theoretical framework for understanding the properties of semiconductors made from amorphous materials such as sulfur, selenium and tellurium, all of which are far more economical to produce than crystalline components...
...that organized systems drift into disorder. But many biological processes, including the ones in which simple acids combine to form complex molecules or in which cells join together to form higher organisms, seem to contradict this rule. Prigogine has provided a method for including biological systems within the framework of thermodynamics. Some 20 years ago he developed mathematical models of a class of systems he termed "dissipative structures," which could dissipate energy at the same time they were organizing themselves and growing in size and complexity. Chemical confirmation of his theory did not come as a surprise to Prigogine...
...pillar of economics--the belief that people are preoccupied with improving their material existence--is now a hindrance to understanding key contemporary problems. The analytical framework that the economist has for so long taken for granted--but that the sociologist has long disputed--may now be ineffective...
...question is not one of timing or foot-dragging. It is one of an impression of overall responsiveness--of whether there will actually some day be a comprehensive, well-thought-out framework for proposals on low-income housing construction (preferably low-level), public transportation, municipal bond underwriting, redlining, crime-fighting, etc. Carter's "let's work with what we have" attitude, combined with his reuqirement for rebuilding the cities--that it not come at the expense of a balanced budget and strong defense--does not bode well for those issues or the future of the nation's cities in general...