Word: frameworks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maybe, though, a middle line between two extremes should be tried. Maintaining cultural, educational and scientific ties within a framework of strictly adhered-to non-racist guidelines would benefit the South African population as a whole. Continuing business contacts based on more carefully defined "Sullivan principles" might get the all-important business community involved in reform--indeed, it is from this very community, whose bottom line is profit and therefore a stable, efficient, economic system, that some real attempts at liberalization have come. And cutting off economic and military aid to the regime itself would get the message across that...
...time now, the average SAT's of education students have been among the lowest of any professional group. We call teachers professionals, but their paychecks label them dirt. Some politicians argue that pay grades--apprentice teacher to full teacher to senior teacher to master teacher--will superimpose a professional framework through competitive merit pay, but it is a travesty to suggest any instructor merits some of the wages currently doled out in schools. For many years, the brightest women and minorities entered teaching as one of the few doors open to them. As the doors now multiply, society must work...
Journalists defend the polls. "Sure, they're skewing the race," Woodlief said. "I'm not so sure that's a bad thing. They winnow out the candidates. They give a framework to the competition. At some point we have to look at the probable winners...
Starr goes on to stress the cross--disciplinary nature of his book, which he says integrates history, economics, and polities under the framework of sociology. This diversity dovetails with a point be returns to several times during the course of a 45-minutes discussion--the advantages he sees in the fractious nature of sociology...
...doctrine of progressive Islam, however, could well appeal to the apparently pragmatic Andropov, for it provides an ideological justification for a Soviet attempt to harness the anti-Americanism of resurgent Islam, and so subsume religious fundamentalism within the framework of East-West rivalry. Such a doctrine also creates intellectual justification for overt support of left wing Muslim fundamentalists, which groups have in the past received only covert assistance...