Word: formalisms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Lady Bird's instance, the White House in the Johnson years was a casual home rather than a formal castle...
...alongside Taiwan's presidential election in March. It would ask the people whether Taiwan should apply to join the United Nations under the name "Taiwan." After Beijing took over Taiwan's U.N. seat in 1971, the island has failed in its attempt to re-enter the body under its formal national title of "Republic of China." Chen says he doesn't want to compete with China for representation, but to find a global voice for Taiwan's 23 million people. Any application to the U.N. by Taiwan would have no chance of succeeding, because China, as a member...
...played an important leadership role within Alumni Affairs and Development, especially these past few months, and I am grateful to him now for accepting formal responsibility for guiding our activities in this area during this moment of transition,” Faust said in the statement. “I know he will continue to serve Harvard with his characteristic intelligence, skill and collegiality and I look forward to working with him even more closely in the time ahead...
Jodie Hannaman grew up in Houston, a city as fond of formal weddings as of barbecues and rodeos. So it was saying something at Duschene Academy, her Roman Catholic girls' school, that Hannaman was chosen as Most Likely to Be Married First. But her teenage fantasies of buttercream frosting and silky bridesmaids dresses first began to crack with her high school sweetheart. He dated her for more than a decade before she finally got tired of waiting for a marriage proposal that was never going to come. There were other men after that, but it was Hannaman who repeatedly decided...
Winning the right to host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games was so important to Russia, and to Vladimir Putin personally, that the Russian president himself led the country's final, formal presentation before the International Olympic Committee in Guatemala City on July 4. Rare for him, he even made his address in English, with finishing remarks in French...