Word: frameworks
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Lappe and Collins use these questions as the basis of further exploration. Using a question-and-answer format that is generally successful, they argue that the real source of world hunger is the social framework in which it occurs. "Once the livelihood of millions of self-provisioning farmers," they write, "agriculture is becoming the profit base of influential commercial entrepeneurs--traditional landed elites, city-based agricultural speculators, and foreign corporations." Studies show that large landholders who use traditional labor-intensive techniques tend to be much less efficient than their smaller counterparts, who draw as much as possible...
While President Carter sets the broad goals and makes the decisions by which he seeks to fulfill them, his National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, provides much of the long-range thinking and the intellectual framework on which foreign policy rests. TIME White House Correspondent Stanley Cloud explored Brzezinski's ideas in two long interviews. His report...
...neoclassical" adherents-has exhibited a dismal track record in predicting and interpreting phenomena. After viewing numerous examples of multivariable decision making in game situations (poker was a Morgenstern favorite), he used mathematics, logic and the relatively simple economic-behavioral concept of "utility maximization" to devise a general theoretical framework which often demonstrated remarkable predictive power. He also applied his theory to such diverse areas as nuclear arms negotiations, computer science and complex business decisions for the government and private industry...
Carter, for his part, began the first session by explaining that the only U.S. goal was to achieve a comprehensive settlement, no plans would be imposed on the negotiating parties by outsiders, and talks should be within the framework of United Nations Resolutions 242 and 338. Carter probed Begin for clarifications of the Israeli position, but on the few occasions when the President expressed demurs, the Premier either ignored them or changed the subject. When Carter voiced his concern about new Israeli settlements on the West...
...another human being. On the other side stands a force representing society, automatically identified as the good guy, no matter how perverse or corrupt the person or organization may be. For example, even Dirty Harry, the psychopathic vengeance-seeker, becomes one of the "good guys" within this basic framework. These opposing forces usually are taken for granted, and most murder mysteries do not delve any further into the matter, save for a few offhand comments on the fallibility of the men in the white hats. Bo Widerberg's Man on the Roof, however, confronts this automatic assumption in a serious...