Word: formalisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...number of executions has also dropped dramatically from its modern peak in 1999. The 42 executions in 2007 were the fewest in 13 years. A number of states had called formal or informal moratoriums even before the Supreme Court effectively halted executions nationwide pending its review of lethal injection...
Politics is a family tradition--Haugland's great-grandfather was a Lieutenant Governor--and one that she intends to honor, with plans to work for a state representative this spring. And while she has no formal media experience, Haugland earned some stripes on her grandfather's farm in Clear Lake, Iowa, where the family gives summer tours of the field where Buddy Holly's plane crashed in February...
...database of more than 70 U.S. companies that allow babies at work, and founder Carla Moquin says she is constantly including more. "I believe that this is actually a lot more prevalent than I've found so far," she says, adding that many companies are slow to establish formal policies but often make ad hoc arrangements for individual employees...
...TIME: On Thursday you are going to be going up against a very well funded and very professional [Romney] organization to get people out [to vote]. How important are the informal and formal networks in this state, the Bible study groups? How important is it that people are talking about you in church...
Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers approached Wu, 20, at about 12:30 a.m. on Dec. 16 when Wu allegedly yelled and threw a snowball at a person outside the Faculty Club, the site of the Tri-House winter formal...