Word: framework
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...time at all, Panamanians were deep in name-calling of their own. "An insult to Panamanian sovereignty," cried the Panamanian Students' Federation. When Thatcher himself and U.S. Under Secretary of State George Ball turned up for the dedication, rioting Panamanian youths swarmed up the steel framework, waving Panamanian flags and shouting "Thatcher No, Americas Si!" Thatcher's name was ripped from the bridge plaque. The rest of the dedication ceremony, including a scheduled speech by Thatcher, was hurriedly canceled. Still, everyone agrees, it is nice to have the bridge, whatever its name...
Never before has a President's brother served in the Senate, Lodge said, because "no one has had the gall to attempt it." He saw the election of Kennedy as a threat to the "constitutional framework of the government...
Brecht's sardonic point emerges with ferocious bitterness when the framework of theatrical hocus-pocus is followed firmly and thoroughly," Taubman summarized...
...Germany and its position as the "leader of Western Europe" only by ensuring that the nation does not relapse, after his death or retirement, into "the precarious and disastrous condition that it knew for 50 years" of unending political crises. To correct what he once called "the badly constructed framework" of the Third and Fourth Republics, De Gaulle proposes to strengthen the present presidential system and thus confer on his successor the authority that Charles de Gaulle enjoys by virtue of his immense personal prestige...
...Adenauer and De Gaulle will undoubtedly discuss Britain's bid for membership in Europe's Common Market, a touchy issue that last week intensified the growing strain between Bonn and London (see below). Other likely topics: Berlin and the possibility of Franco-German military cooperation outside the framework of NATO. However, many diplomats in both countries breathed a sigh of relief when they learned that De Gaulle and der Alte will have only four hours together for formal talks. Hopefully, officials believe that the two leaders will be too busy patching up old Franco-German quarrels to open...