The reason I like that kind of model is not that I believe it to be literally true, but that I am intensely aware of the power of maximization-and-equilibrium to organize one's thinking - and I have seen the propensity of those who try to do economics without those organizing devices to produce sheer nonsense when they imagine they are freeing themselves from some confining orthodoxy.
As organizing devices, narratives provide a specific temporal order of events, arranged in a dramatic plot, creating a rhetorical sequence which reaches a climax that leads to a resolution that helps audiences understand the moral lessons and conclusions to be taken from the story [ 19].
Made of recycled barn wood, the cabinet holds several baskets as stylish organizing devices.
Another organizing device was Walt Whitman (here songs by Mr. Rorem, Charles Naginski, Henry T. Burleigh, Hindemith and Bernstein).
Alliteration was the organizing device of Anglo-Saxon poetry, predating rhyme, but it was dying out by the 14th century until a group of poets established what has been called an "alliterative revival".
So Ms. Kellogg and Mr. Kusurelis designed a sly organizing device: a walnut-veneer plywood wall that runs from the front to the back of the loft to hide the working parts of the home, including closets, storage, laundry, two bathrooms and, halfway up the 14-foot ceiling, two guest rooms, one reachable only by ladder.
Here, we shall use Visser's (2013) pioneering attempt to achieve comparability across time and countries of key institutional features as an organizing device on which to hang some more recent research, specifically controversies/findings on collective bargaining coverage under extension agreements, the costs of those agreements, and the impact of contract innovation under decentralization.
Like record stores and time-bound television, the labor union as an organizing device has outlived its usefulness: people simply don't need intermediaries to organize them into groups anymore.
In "Harmony," the distinctly androgynous scientist is seeking to create a "theory of everything," again using music, a musical staff, as an organizing device.
● Implement symmetry: Symmetry is a powerful force in our world and inherently comforting because it often works as a visual organizing device.
But one element of Beethoven's work that must also have gotten through to him was the ingenious use of motifs (mini-themes, sometimes just a gesture with a few notes or a characteristic rhythm) as a structural organizing device.
