Word: formalisms
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...walked through the crowds of flamboyant males, I was somewhat self-conscious of my formal work attire (and gender), which marked me as a clear outsider. Customers in gay bars eyed me with bemused curiosity, but after a brief chat with the manager I was granted a seat amongst the regular clientele, and felt unusually safe as a lone girl at a pub. My status as a reporter provided a credible reason for admittance, and it was exhilarating to infiltrate the generally closed-off community...
...down, less than halfway through his second term, to take a job in the private sector. Even Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who Bratton has partnered with so successfully to lower the city's crime rate, only learned of Bratton's plans during a midnight phone call the day before the formal announcement. Bratton explained that he had actually made the decision several weeks before and had planned to tell the mayor at a meeting on Wednesday; but, he says the Los Angeles Times forced his hand. An unnamed source had told the newspaper about Bratton's plans to leave...
...dealers must destroy each clunker's engine, fewer parts are salvageable - which means less profit for the recyclers who process the automobiles. Although 60% of a car's salvage value comes from the engine and drive train, Wilson said the original cash-for-clunkers plan - the formal name is the Car Allowance Rebates System (CARS) - called for the obliteration of both. While the ARA and Congress hashed out a compromise that salvages each automobile's drive train, ruining the engine still kills about 30% of a vehicle's recycling value. For recyclers, who pay upwards of $700 to process each...
...Perry in the Texas gubernatorial race. She made hints about the 2006 race but backed off, then did the same for the one coming in 2010. On Wednesday, July 29, after months of will she/won't she, Hutchison went on a Texas talk-radio show and stated in a formal announcement that she would launch her campaign in August and leave the Senate in "October or November." But just as suddenly, as the news spread through Texas political circles, Hutchison held a press gaggle in Washington and confused the picture...
...radio, the Senator had sounded definite. "Formal announcement: I am in. Then the actual leaving of the Senate will be sometime - October, November - that, in that time frame," she told Fort Worth WBAP-AM talk-radio host Mark Davis. In 2006, she had indicated she might challenge him and then backed off. "No one expected him to run again, and I stepped back last time," she told Davis. But this time, she said, there would be no "free pass" for Perry. Later, she told reporters in a Capitol presser: "He can really help in many ways if he doesn...