Word: formalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Formal election to the speaker's chair will take place when the new Congress convenes in January, but yesterday's nomination is tantamount to acceptance for the 65-year-old O'Neill, since the Democrats hold a 277-158 margin in the newly elected House...
...into a powerbroker's position in the House of Commons after Britain's 1974 general elections-and then resigned as leader two years later, after Scott made a courtroom claim of his sexual liaison. Thorpe repeatedly denied the accusation, but the storm finally broke last August, when formal charges were laid against the quartet...
...closed meeting, minutes after the release of Allison's statement, approximately 45 students of the student association voted almost unanimously not to participate in the formal "Working Group" Allison outlines in his statement...
...PROBLEM is that Moynihan fails to make some crucial distinctions, and also to face some undeniable realities. To begin with, he never stipulates his exact criteria for those states he classes as totalitarian: he himself admits, for example, that there are states with formal constitutional rights that systematically ignore them, as well as despotic regimes that welcome large margins of economic liberalism. He also fails to point out that states are more than just receptacles of ideas. They have also become brokers of power, based on their natural resources and geopolitical positioning. This means that the U.S. cannot hope...
Baldrige, a superbly energetic amalgam of feminist and Tasteful Lady, left a few sections of the original Amy nearly intact?the formal wedding, heraldic devices, parliamentary procedure, how to visit a naval vessel and how to go fox hunting. (Do not show up in black derby with a pink coat. Never done!) But the farther Baldrige explored in the territory of manners, the more she revised and enlarged the Vanderbilt canon. She kicked the stuffiness out of it and inserted a clear-eyed, considerate feminism...