Word: frameworks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When ideas form your conceptual framework of politics, you don't view the process as odd--you view it in clear terms of ideological conflict. George Bush ahs rarely been able to do that. His view of politics is precisely what Dolan said Reagan's was not: That it is "about meetings, conferences, phone calls, rules and decisions"--the mechanism of compromise and moderation...
...most of these IBMers conceded great respect for Perot's sales ability and drive. But they strongly disliked or distrusted their colleague. "He was a money-hungry guy," recalls ex-salesman Ogden Kidd, now 63. "He was not a team player, and he was not comfortable working within the framework of business ethics that IBM had adopted at the time." Or, as another, more forgiving salesman puts it, "He was practicing '80s ethics in the 1960s...
...Roman" classicist, creating emblems of political virtue like Jacques-Louis David. From all we know of Canova, he never seems to have had a thought about politics -- which must have been an advantage for a man who worked for so many courts, papal and royal. Despite the mythological framework he employed, he was practicing an early kind of art for art's sake, in which formal inflection and delicacy, combined with an exquisite instinct for the equilibrium of masses, reigned supreme...
Seeking to minimize the damage, Denmark's 11 E.C. partners left the door open to the country's eventual reconsideration of the treaty. Their strategy: to salvage the Maastricht framework while applying pressure on the Danes to change their minds, perhaps in a second plebiscite that could be held as late as 1993 if the treaty's current ratification deadline is extended beyond December of this year...
...lepers in the adjacent village, much to the horror of the paranoid denizens of his own village. The storyline takes twist after twist, placing a story within a story. The internal rivalry between the destitute lepers and the village of rickshaw-puller tenants is juxtaposed against the larger framework of animosity between the poor villagers and the landlord's draconian son, Ashok. He terrorizes the villagers, and wreaks havoc in their impoverished and already miserable lives...