Word: frameworks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pragmatic tone, and the fact that his plan leaves room for bargaining, should ensure that his budget will not be rejected out of hand, as was the dead-on-arrival plan he delivered to Congress last February. "The debate this year is going to be within the framework presented by the President," says his top lobbyist, Kenneth Duberstein. Hill leaders agree. But because Reagan's program includes so many unpalatable specifics, another grueling yearlong struggle over spending and taxes is surely in store. "The budget fight will be bloody and partisan," predicts Republican Congressman Dick Cheney of Wyoming...
...particle is an example of extraordinary scientific sleuthing, comparable to finding a missing person in a crowd of a billion people. It also provides dramatic new support for a keystone of contemporary physics: the idea that nature's fundamental operations can be united in a single mathematical framework...
...Selky's disappearance after his mother sends him off on his two-block walk to school. When he does not come home later that afternoon, the movie focuses on the mother's frantic attempt to discover his fate. The police's investigation of Alex's disappearance provides a loose framework for the rest of the film, as detective Al Manetti (Judd Hirsck) tries to maintain momentum despite the scarcity of clues. As time passes and the search deteriorate to the level of psychic and hypnotic investigation, clues begin to appear with a disturbing haphazardness; the mother's house-boy suddenly...
Winnick's introduction includes a brief but adequate summary biography of MacLeish, providing a necessary framework for the letters themselves. Arranged chronologically, they constitute a flowing narrative with only occasional gaps or seams. The story begins as young Archive leaves Glencoe, Illinois, to prep at Hotchkiss; a few letters from MacLeish's parents to the school's headmaster, the only ones in the collection not written by the poet himself, bear witness to their son's homesickness and general unhappiness there. In the letters he wrote at Yale and as a field artillery officer in France in 1918, a somewhat...
...sides agreed on a compromise formula that permitted both to claim a measure of victory. Israel dropped its insistence on the word normalization and instead accepted the more neutral phrase "a framework for mutual relations," which would include "liaison, ending of hostile propaganda, the movement of goods, products and persons, and communications." All the main points on the agenda, it was agreed, would be regarded as equally important and would be discussed concurrently "in the light of their interrelationship." Israel would be able to stress "termination of the state of war," while Lebanon could emphasize "complete withdrawals...