Such was the sprawling nature of the narrative – it kept to its 10-year framework, and largely to its London and Sussex settings, but featured an ever-expanding cast – that the proposed trilogy became a quartet, published between 1990 and 1995.
In little over a month 196 world leaders will gather in Paris at the COP21 climate summit attempting to set a framework to keep the world within a two degree temperature cap -- a limit which experts believe would prevent the worst impacts of climate change.
Everyone knows secrets must be kept, but keeping them needs a framework built on public trust.
The series, which begins with a two-hour episode on Sunday on NBC, tries to keep the conspiracy framework of the original — if you're going to call your show "The Firm," there needs to be a sinister firm in there somewhere — while also providing weekly courtroom catharsis.
In an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live, Mr Grayling alluded to the possibility of scrapping the Human Rights Act - which the Lib Dems are committed to defending - saying: "Well, self-evidently, if we are going to create a new legal framework we are not going to be able to keep the framework we've got at the moment.
"We are planning to keep our waitlisting framework until the app's user base has a reasonable size and diversity.
To keep the PRISM framework parsimonious, we included those determinants that are empirically tested and amenable to change.
But to have any prospect of making durable connections with the voters, the Coalition needs to keep its policy framework in very close proximity with the facts.
This is the approach that we take in our model in order to keep the suggested framework simple.
Hopefully this slow burn will help regulators to keep up and develop a framework that allows the integration of autonomous cars into regular traffic.
It is tempting in that case to keep the solution-diffusion framework, based on a combination of permeability and driving force terms.
