Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chiefly, she tapped the expertise of two groups that observe their subjects from distinct vantage points. Constitutional experts and royal historians, many of whom have written books, provided historical context. But it was photographers who had the most to tell, even if they didn't want their names seen in print. "If I want gossip, I don't go to a gossip columnist. I go to photographers," Martha says. "There're a number of them making a living from shooting the royal family. With their sharp and trained eyes, they know a great deal about personal habits...
...contends that the memos are being taken out of context and that the pre- 1988 trucks meet, if not surpass, federal safety standards. For example, GM notes that the trucks passed the traffic-safety administration's 20-m.p.h. side-impact crash tests. In 1980 GM began conducting its own 50-m.p.h. crash tests, even though they are not required by law. Explaining why the tanks were mounted outboard for so long, a high-ranking GM executive points out that exhaust pipes and other mechanisms usually crowd the center of the chassis, leaving little room for a large gas container. Says...
...things to look for in reading this issue are facts taken out of context, opposing arguments misrepresented, and, despite the calm rational tone, a decided lack of systematic logic that doesn't start by assuming what is in question. This issue is nothing to be afraid...
...With characteristic wit, he pens some of his correspondence under a letterhead proclaiming himself the "Thorstein Veblen Wizard of Political Economy." To the criticism that few of the insights in his books are original, friends say Reich considers synthesis as important as discovery. As he once wrote in another context, "Often, greater rewards flow to quick and clever followers than to brilliant and original inventors...
...sketches Malcolm's life colorfully, if by the numbers. But he falls victim to the danger of movie biography: he elevates Malcolm's importance until the vital historical context is obscured. Malcolm came of age in an era of great black oratory. Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., Adam Clayton Powell, Eldridge Cleaver, Maya Angelou had no power but in their minds and throats and pens. And what force, what rage, what music they found there...