Chief among them, ABC said, was a Sept. 14 message from Benjamin J. Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser, to several other agencies involved in formulating talking points about the attack that had occurred three days earlier at the U.S. diplomatic outpost in the eastern Libyan city.
The furor over Benghazi, which has centered on how the administration formulated its talking points in the days after the attack, fits in the latter, White House officials say.
Unlike Goodwin, he is of use to the elite, as he has helped to formulate its talking points, arguing for deregulation and denying environmental problems.
Imagine if this money had been spent in the wilds of some red state on a drill involving a "right-wing terrorist group," and then channel the outrage which the other side would have vented -- that may help you to formulate your talking point, here.
For more than 30 years Mr. Hickey, an art critic, fiction writer and now a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has been wrestling with cultural demons, trying to formulate ways of talking about art that acknowledge that terribly untrendy notion of "beauty".
The same three companies — Merck, Novartis and Sankyo — also gave the money that the medical society used to formulate the main talking point of those briefings, an expanded concept of high blood pressure that many doctors say would increase the number of people taking drugs.
Then the units of meaning are sorted and condensed and units of significance are formulated (what is talked about).
- Strong opinions are formulated (although we are talking about the biology of an organism which lived billions years ago).
Offering comparative readings of a number of texts that are traditionally called allegories and that cover a wide time span, Maureen Quilligan formulates a vocabulary for talking about the distinctive generic elements they share.
Empirical and consultative work during the intervention development phase helped formulate and operationalise the 'Talking Diabetes' intervention.
