Word: framework
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These children have a strong framework of morals and a clear perception of what is right and what is wrong. And while children who commit "carbon copy" crimes aren't necessarily immoral, they aren't easily able to see the distinction between television and reality...
...doorstop best sellers go, Herman Wouk's melodramas The Winds of War and War and Remembrance were tolerable entertainment. The historical framework of World War II was well enough known that the author could focus on the adventures of his solid-oak characters without having to teach history. That's not true of The Hope (Little, Brown; 693 pages; $24.95), Wouk's earnest novel about Israel's first two decades, beginning with the fight for independence in 1948 and carrying through...
...writing and the way I package it so that I'm never compromsing in my writing...I feel like I've never written to order, but once I have written things, I do think it's sort of amusing to see them enter into a kind of traditional framework. So that for instance people tease me about having been made a Chevalier de I'Ordre des Arts et Lettres. But my feeling is, gee, I must be the first openly gay writer to have received that award, and I'm just old enough to have remembered when people threw stones...
Clinton deserves enormous credit for the scope and substance of his ambitious policy proposals, especially service and universal health care. The problem is that he has expected these policies to stand alone, rather than using them as a framework to facilitate action under a set of clearly and persuasively articulated principles...
...most important clause in the entire 2000 page accord lies in the early pages of part one, which specifically states that the treaty establishes "a framework for further trilateral, regional and multilateral cooperation to expand and enhance the benefits of this agreement...