Word: layering
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...advising system is one layer of the new bureaucracy that has fostered a more open and consultative atmosphere on campus...
...second, less explicit layer of meaning, the Quayle line took on complex racial colorations. He suggested that Murphy Brown was a bad role model for unmarried females. In the speech's context, he was talking about single mothers in the ghetto. But like so much in last week's odd episode, there were signs of hip shooting and inadvertence...
Race adds a final layer of complication to the picture. As many African Americans have flowed into the middle class, they too have sought refuge in the suburbs -- often against the resistance of red-lining banks and reluctant white neighbors. Their departure has done more than deny tax revenue to the cities. It has deprived black youths in the ghetto of living examples of the steady work and stable family life of middle-class blacks...
BLASTING THROUGH A THIN LAYER OF CLOUDS INTO blue skies above, the new space shuttle Endeavour rode into space only half an hour behind schedule last week, on a mission to rescue a misplaced satellite and to give astronauts some space-walking practice. It was the first flight for the new $2 billion craft, a replacement for the Challenger, which blew up and killed its crew of seven in January...
Voters are certainly not named because of homelessness, or because of the budget dificit or because of the depletion of the ozone layer--these problems are too big and too hard to solve. They aren't even visually upset because government policy is shortsighted and inefficient--whenever a politician espouses rational planning he is very quickly voted out of office. Maybe the American public is just angry because of relative decline--of which it is the cause...