Word: frameworks
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...come to take in its students' lives, in subjects ranging from social life to advising to quality of teaching. No, it is not the College's responsibility to provide students with social opportunities, as Dean Harry R. Lewis '68 has pointed out, but in maintaining a paternalistic, stifling framework within which students must choose their social activities, the administration only augments dissatisfaction among its students and ultimately creates an undesirable community of Malcontent individuals. Someday the College may come to understand this, but it certainly shows no signs of enlightenment anytime soon. GEORGE W. HICKS...
...with pores no wider than a toothbrush bristle, researchers have learned to sculpt scaffolds in shapes into which cells can settle. The other part of the answer is just plain cell biology. Scientists have discovered that they don't have to teach old cells new tricks; given the right framework and the right nutrients, cells will organize themselves into real tissues as the scaffolds dissolve. "I'm a great believer in the cells. They're not just lying there, looking stupidly at each other," says Francois Auger, an infectious-disease specialist and builder of artificial blood vessels at Laval University...
Hart says she believes that the kind of curriculum framework that the MCAS is based on is essential to an education...
...influence business activity is increasingly constrained and their margin of maneuver shrinks before the overwhelming power of financial markets, governments are under pressure to enlarge their roles in two key domains: on the one hand, they must strive to provide through their policies the most propitious environment and framework for economic activity, for knowledge generation and for greater competitiveness; on the other hand, they must equip their citizens with the skills and expertise needed to face the unrelenting pressures and requirements created by globalization...
...Rubin says, Clinton has been willing to make politically tough decisions when necessary to assure U.S. growth--bailing out Mexico in 1995, for instance. "I really don't know what would have happened with this global climate if we hadn't had a President who had within him the framework to do what was best for the global economy," Rubin says...