Word: formalisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alerted to the existence of the photos after the recruiter's wife made a formal complaint, Army investigators never asked for them. "We take such allegations very seriously, and we investigate them thoroughly," said Major Lester Felton, No. 2 officer in the Army's Syracuse, New York, recruiting headquarters. But he declined to say why he never interviewed the neighbor, never saw her pictures and never informed the wife of the results of the inquiry. "We're not required to," Felton says...
...Such formal prose does not entirely squelch the sort of tomfooleries that Pynchon devotees so eagerly search out. When, for example, Mason takes offense at a remark by his partner, Dixon asks, "Tell me, what'd I say?" The anachronistic allusion to Ray Charles' future rock hit will tickle the cognoscenti. The book teems with other familiar Pynchonesque diversions: a talking dog that appears near the beginning and again near the end of the story; a four-ton cheese called "The Octuple Gloucester"; a journey by Mason to the inhabited center of the earth; cameo appearances by a number...
...Formal Incentive Plans, a.k.a. retirement bonuses...
...Formal incentive plans, the most fiscally aggressive of all legal plans, are block bonus payments--often a multiple of a professor's salary--dispersed at retirement. There is a minimum eligibility age, and the bonus decreases as the faculty member ages...
...surgeon and bioethicist Sherwin B. Nuland presents an anatomy of human life, vividly illustrated by case histories from his wide operating-room experience. The result is a book -- part basic textbook, part memoir and meditation -- that is wholly secular yet sublimely uplifting. Although not a religious man in any formal sense, Nuland is overwhelmed with awe at how the human body works. As he writes, ?We are, of necessity, miracles with flaws.? The basic miracle, as Nuland describes it, is that the body?s different systems -- cardiovascular, reproductive and so on -- work together in a seemingly chaotic but balanced harmony...