Word: framework
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...secret that the department is home to a sort of Rational Choice Church: you're either a rationalist or you're not. You either accept the narrow rational-actor paradigm as the comprehensive framework for explaining everything about politics--as many tenured American government professors at Harvard happen to--or you see the model as useful but not the final word--as Mark Peterson and most other political scientists...
...highlight of the program was their second selection, Don't Stop this Train. Using Bach as a framework, Lewis created a set that bounced along, prodded by his fancy fingerwork on the piano...
...place of the Soviet Union, there are 15 separate nations and something called the Commonwealth of Independent States, which provides a tenuous framework for cooperation among 11 of them. The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have already reclaimed their status as separate competitors. Seven other former republics are not competing. But five states -- Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan -- will participate jointly at the Winter Games. Members of the so-called Unified Team wear the traditional red-white-and-light-gray uniforms of the former Soviet Union, but will be allowed to display the name, flag or symbol...
...School Dean Robert C. Clark called Freund an "outstanding teacher, to both students and colleagues, about the constitutional framework of our society...
Jessel lives vicariously what he believes life had been like for Summerchild and Serafin, based on the skeletal framework he constructs of transcripts, tapes, memos and photographs. As they had sought happiness, so does...