While these (earlier) Anglo-American systems applications in the social sciences underscored action and behavior, the systems theory of the 1980s and 1990s in the German language area emphasized an alternative focus.
But in a movie the audience then starts to take cues from the music they've heard early on you know the character or situation, the music underscores action or dialogue so you build up a tool kit of themes that you use over and over again.
Processing our new president's first week after the inaugural circus was precarious at best, but as the celebratory haze cleared an exasperated media tried its best to underscore the actions that will now shape our nation's agenda.
This is music to illustrate and underscore the action, rather than drive or embody it, which is the true nature of opera.
There is no denying the jump in mood between the three; just listen to the taut, plucked strings that underscore the action in "On the Run," as opposed to the parping horns that inform us, with no great subtlety, that the predicament of Alain, in "An Amazing Couple," is to be treated primarily as farce.
The Fullerton College Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Dean Anderson, while strong and mood-enhancing, would be far more effective if toned down to underscore the action rather than overcome it.
And Thomas's own actions underscore the issue.
But other early actions underscore the threat he poses to the country.
Although the threat to Coalition Forces is limited, continued Iraqi confrontational actions underscore the regime's determination to stay the course.
"These actions underscore our commitment to targeting employers that cultivate illegal work forces by knowingly hiring and exploiting illegal workers," said Matt Chandler, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security.
But the Bank of Italy's actions underscore larger concerns about the transparency of the Vatican's finances, something that Pope Benedict XVI has promised to fix.
