Word: formal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kirchler says Slope Day has its origins in anannual Spring Parade which no longer takes place.In previous years, the university would set up astage, and student groups would bring music groupsto play on campus. But, due to safety concerns,there is no longer any formal entertainment...
Sources say it took over a year to begin an official investigation into the incidents because the victims were reluctant to bring formal complaints...
...Wear formal wear...
...former adviser, he was elected Poland's first noncommunist President, a post he held until 1995. Some people liked his stalwart, outspoken style. Others found him too undignified to be the new democracy's head of state. Brilliant as a people's tribune, he stumbled over long formal speeches. You never felt he was quite comfortable in the role. When he stayed with the British Queen at Windsor Castle, he characteristically quipped that the bed was so big, he couldn't find his wife...
...faithful in Russia. Karol Wojtyla's training was extensive, dating back to discreet studies for the priesthood under Nazi occupation in Poland. After that, parish work and academic studies under communist rule, leading in 1963 to the episcopacy in Cracow. Pity poor Gorbachev. Seventy-two years of formal national commitment to atheism, backed by the Gulag, and now, 1989, a street poll revealed that 40% of Soviet citizens believed...