Natural philosophy has always been a key part of science, providing a framework for hypotheses and conclusions, especially when experimentation bumps up against the walls of physics and technology.

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President Bush said at his news conference on Thursday evening that the US should not abandon Afghanistan once the strikes succeed, but should help it rebuild, with the UN possibly providing a framework.

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They accomplished this by providing a framework for interests within a group of high tax states to create a cartel that would channel competition in tax policy away from areas where those states had a competitive disadvantage and toward areas in which they had a competitive advantage.

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This week saw the European Investment Bank officially announce a Mediterranean Solar Plan Project Preparation Initiative (MSP-PPI), aimed at providing a green energy framework for financing efforts across member states.

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"By providing people with a framework to facilitate contact and shared positive experiences, the project seeks to raise awareness on the similarities that can unite the two communities, while recognising the differences which exist, " he said.

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Walton found that the intervention reduced the degree to which students correlated bad days with not belonging by providing them with a nonthreatening framework for interpreting daily challenges.

CNN: The importance of belonging

By reducing the state's role to that of setting the overall framework and providing a safety net, and by ensuring that every adult owns his or her own funded pension, the Tories hope to create a massive psycholgical shift in attitudes to saving.

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Scotland will have a strong, stable and modern economy with a regulatory framework which meets best practice: allowing businesses to prosper while providing robust safeguards for Scotland's people.

BBC: Scotland politics

The difference, said Zik, is that GRI is a sustainability-reporting framework, whereas Energy Points helps executives make effective decisions by providing comparative analysis.

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