Word: frameworks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well, for they permit the Soviets to continue their 17-year-old missile buildup, which in turn is forcing the U.S. into expensive countermeasures. But the Carter Administration succeeded in negotiating additional provisions that would apply the brakes to the Soviet juggernaut. The Administration has inserted into the Vladivostok framework a new ceiling for MiRVed ICBMS and a freeze on the MIRVing of various types of ICBMS. Before the treaty expires in 1985, the Soviets would be permitted to deploy a maximum of 820 MiRVed ICBMS. That is about 100 more than they have now and therefore hardly cause...
...movement leads to another in Lader's account of the Left in the U.S. The unifying framework of the Left as he sees it is constant experimentation and struggle for new tactics and methods of organizing. The Left consistently attempts to break down old forms of society and to replace them with new ones, he says, though no hardline Marxist doctrine is followed. (Lader refers to this again and again throughout the book--the list of those leaders with little or no exposure to Marxist teachings extends from the labor leaders of the 40s to the radical feminists...
...student generation of the 1940s and 1950s lived within fairly rigid social and other constraints which, though often violated, were not in themselves much questioned. Ethical norms and professional goals were set within a framework of widely shared standards...
...have discarded equations and social and political terms of reference so far used for assessing all the world's problems. We have built a new framework of values standing up for justice and fighting injustice. We will defend any upholder of justice and attack any perpetrator of injustice. You may name this value system whatever you like. We are laying the foundation of this value system, which, we hope, will one day replace?in the U.N., the Security Council, and other world bodies?the influence of the capitalists and the great powers that can now condemn out of hand anybody...