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For each one of them the dictionary was a site of political struggle clearly signifying ideological underpinnings.
For another, the normative underpinnings of popular measures of health inequality should be further clarified.
Even the title of Cohen's book and its cover art--a brass-knuckled fist--are lifted directly from a book published eight years ago, Paul Breines' Tough Jews: Political Fantasies and the Moral Dilemma of American Jewry , which analyzes the psychological underpinnings of the cult of Jewish toughness born after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day War.
Prudie feels slightly ambivalent about the cloak-and-dagger underpinnings involved.
As attitudes towards fisheries continue to change, increased understanding of the ecological underpinnings should help strike a more informed balance between fisheries' conservation and production.