Word: frameworks
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...script provides a perfect framework for some winning one-liners. There is, for example, some insightful commentary from Ms. Ballzov. "When you've been sucking on the lemon of life as long as I have," she notes, "sometimes you have to pucker up and kiss it on the tuchus...
...cave bears, a panther and no fewer than 50 woolly rhinos. Such creatures, to paraphrase Claude Lavi-Strauss, were good to think with, not good to eat. We can assume they had a symbolic value, maybe even a religious value, to those who drew them, that they supplied a framework of images in which needs, values and fears-in short, a network of social consciousness-could be expressed. But we have no idea what this framework was, and merely to call it "animistic" does not say much...
...British-Irish talks trembled after the Times of London published excerpts of a leaked draft of the ``framework document'' intended to serve as a guideline for peace negotiations among all parties in the Northern Ireland conflict. The Protestant Ulster politicans threatened to pull out of negotiations and possibly bring down Prime Minister Major's government. The draft proposes the establishment of joint institutions between Ireland and the North to work on common interests such as agriculture and tourism. This raised fears among the province's Protestant majority that such cross-border bodies might lead to the formation of a united...
Some of the alternative political and cultural views produced through these programs threaten Republican hegemony and especially annoy the narrowminded religious right. Streisand identified the Republicans' real reason for targeting these programs for the budget axe--a reactionary desire to return the country to the conservative cultural framework of the 1950s (the era of suburban bliss when minorities and women "knew their places...
...Department of Health unveiled the Healthy People 2000 Goals, an ambitious framework of 22 programs aimed at disease prevention. One goal was to reduce the percentage of overweight Americans from 25% to 20% by the turn of the century. It was, for the Bush Administration, an unusually activist experiment in preventive medicine, with the added purpose of helping curb health costs. Now the U.S. is not only unlikely to meet that target, says Robert Kuczmarski, lead author of the big CDC study, "but it's going in the opposite direction." Just when the country needs to reduce its health-care...