Word: frameworks
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...allowing for a university role, the law includes a statement of intent declaring that the burden will be kept to a minimum--most likely that institutions will have to ask students whether they have registered, but leaving the verification up to the feds. "They have given us an adequate framework," says Charles F. Saunders, a lobbyist for the American Council on Education...
...will not emphasize any one argument or take a partisan point of view," Samuel P. Huntington, Dillon Professor of International Affairs and one of the authors, said in July. "Our aim is to provide an intelligent framework for this very important debate...
Even as the ink was drying on the "Framework for Peace" that was part of the Camp David accords, euphoria over the breakthrough was being tempered by disagreements over precisely what was, and was not, included. The document's strength was also the root of its weakness: the artful use of constructive ambiguity allowed each signatory to proclaim agreement while holding different interpretations of what the words really mean. In some instances, those diverging views are spelled out in letters that accompany the text signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and President Jimmy Carter...
...method for achieving a durable settlement. Israel says that Camp David makes no reference to this approach. Indeed, the accord leaves open to negotiation the final status of the territories, but the document explicitly states that "Jordan will be invited to join the negotiations on the basis of this framework...
Unions fulfill an essential function in American economic life. Within the large corporations that increasingly dominate business, there will always be a need for some formal method of dealing with problems between workers and management. Even in largely nonunionized companies like Motorola and Northrop Corp. a framework exists for handling those issues. The challenge for organized labor will be to convince a new generation of workers that they are best served by wearing the union label. -By Alexander L. Taylor III. Reported by Gisela Bolte/Washington and Paul A. Witteman/Detroit