Word: framework
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hungary and Poland are still apprehensive about the intentions of their big neighbors, Germany and the Soviet Union. They want to keep the U.S. engaged as a counterweight, preferably through NATO. The Soviets, for their part, also want continued American participation -- and investment -- in Europe, but not through the framework of the Atlantic alliance that, as they see it, was created with the sole purpose of confronting them...
There's a lot of posturing in director Woody Hill's staging of Harold Pinter's Betrayal. Rather too much posturing, actually. Given an intriguing theme and an even more intriguing framework within which to stage the play, Hill opts for a stark presentation suffused in its own bitterness. The director seems to strike a flat emotional pitch in all the players of this production, and most emotional nuances are, as a result, lost. In Betrayal, rigid staging unfortunately replaces audience interpretation with directorial determinism...
Providing a Framework...
...director of the project, Fisher has become a major figure in the study of negotiation. Those in the field say that perhaps Fisher's greatest academic contributions lie in the way he has provided a larger framework for important earlier theoretical work that had gone largely unnoticed...
...most comforting thought--holding Supreme Court nominees up to an ideological litmus test. Judges, after all, are supposed to be "objective" or "impartial" jurists. They're supposed to understand some neutral legal framework embodied in the Constitution and decide the merits of specific cases without regard to political ends...