`Down to Earth'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  February 14, 2001 ;   Hewitt, Chris;   527 words ......white guy cannot. Chris Rock doesn't eat hot fudge or go to Sun Valley in Down to Earth, but he does experience that last context problem. In this remake of Warren Beatty's Heaven Can Wait (also a remake), he's a comedian who, taken before his time by an angel...

Micro and Macro Political Behavior in Non-Western Context: The Case of...

Problems and Perspectives in Management;  April 1, 2007 ;   Elamin, Abdallah M;   787 words ......describing what happens inside. Boundary relations (BR) depict those relations that exist between an enterprise and its outside context. Mutual interest between actors at the core relations' sphere (CRS) and boundary relations' sphere (BRS) drives the strategy...

[Organizational learning in schools]

Canadian Journal of Education;  October 1, 1999 ;   Robertson, Jan-reviewer; Lewis, Karen-editor; Leithwood, Kenneth-editor;   787 words ......constructivism. The authors highlight the uniqueness of schools as they address the first of their identified "problems," the context problem. This book does not ignore the fact that much literature on organizational learning has not been related to research in...

Political Games Ugly

Albuquerque Journal;  August 6, 2004 ;   Jim Belshaw Of the Journal;   593 words ......and raped. Heather Wilson casually dismisses it. Juicy stuff. I wanted to read more. I found the story. I came away with a context problem. Not only had the Democratic press release not provided the context of the quote, it didn't use all of the quote. The 1997...

Useful reference on reference.(An Introduction to Reference Services in...

The Australian Library Journal;  February 1, 2007 ;   Linning, Lyn;   416 words ......questions and answers, and evaluating reference services. All of the case studies give a clear picture of the institutional context, problem or task, actions taken and their outcomes. Questionnaires, multiple choice tests and statistical summaries are provided...

The Georgia lottery: assessing its administrative, economic, and political...

The Review of Policy Research;  December 22, 2003 ;   Mccrary, Joseph Condrey, Stephen E.;   787 words ......both internal and regional factors that scholars have found influence policy diffusion. Internal factors include political context, problem severity, state fiscal health, interest groups, and the regulatory environment. Regional diffusion provides ideas and information...

The real WMD that should bother us

The Independent - London;  August 4, 2008 ;   Johann Hari;   787 words ......airports and coal power stations and shrieking for cheaper oil. We are suffering from what psychologists call an "external context problem": this is so far outside anything we have experienced before, it instinctively seems it cannot possibly be true, no matter...

Police officers share experience in Austin.

Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, TX);  June 26, 2006 ;     476 words ......special assistant to the vice president of Academic Affairs at UTB-TSC, and Sen. Eddie Lu-cio Jr., D-Brownsville, provided outside context to law enforcement activities and training. Cardoza said such experience is vital, especially for smaller police departments...

Office of Justice Programs: Oregon Police Corps Holds Graduation

U.S. Newswire;  November 16, 2000 ;     787 words ......Police Corps training places special emphasis on leadership, integrity, effective communication, understanding of social context, problem solving in multi-cultural settings, and commitment to the principles embodied in the Constitution, including respect for...

CRASH COVERAGE STRAINS RESOURCES.(Local)(Column)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  October 26, 1999 ;     481 words ......Channel 4 and Channel 9 led the noon newscast with the story. In a tease, Channel 4 anchor Kathy Soltero had a bit of a context problem, saying, ``the jet is flying out of control and has crashed.'' Over on Channel 9, Washington reporter Jim Hanchett, quoting...

William Finn revue makes an eccentric hodgepodge.(Theater review)

Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA);  June 16, 2007 ;   Stearns, David Patrick;   522 words ......presentation. The singer most likely to graduate to a full-fledged Finn production was Amy Acchione, who solved the Finn-out-of-context problem by living the music from within, not so much performing songs such as Holding to the Ground and The Day the World Stopped...

Group Dynamics in the Formation of a PhD Cohort: A Reflection in...

Organization Development Journal;  April 1, 2005 ;   Kruppa, Rose; Meda, Anne Kohnke;   787 words ......dynamics for our cohort began long before our two-weekend gatherings. Gersick (1988) reports findings that suggest that outside context may play a particularly important role in a group's developmental path at distinct points, one of them being at the time...

Department merger plan divides faculty

University Wire;  January 22, 2008 ;   Elizabeth Olubodun;   787 words ......she feels the proposal could negatively affect the department. "While certain learning opportunities may be created in the outside context, the removal of languages from the department may represent quite a loss," Butler said. But Galili said the goal of the...

(book reviews)

Organization Studies;  January 1, 1999 ;   Buitelaar, Wout L.;   787 words ......of the role of the state, the national framework of industrial relations and the position of unions. In other words, the outside context of works councils has been taken into account, but the internal context, the meso-micro industrial relations, has received...

Euro-snob celebrities should not mock U.S.

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  September 15, 2003 ;   Marianne M. Jennings;   787 words ......problems. It's a classic tactic. It's one that Hitler also used." Later she said she was comparing tactics, not men. Ahh, that "context" problem again. Canada is Euro's offspring. Following the multistate August blackout, Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman whined, "Have you...