Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier in the day, the eight other city councilors begin their two-year terms after taking the oath of office from the city clerk in a formal City Hall ceremony. Six school committee members also took the oath of office at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School later Monday afternoon...
...unclear, case by case determinations must be made by deans or their designees. The disclosure and consultation elements of the above statements allow for these kinds of individual determinations. I would also note that the Intelligence Agency Guidelines, unlike the other two policy statements, were not adopted by a formal vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. They do, however, reflect the results of careful consideration by a University committee, (including consultation with a number of faculty members and others), have proved useful in providing guidance over the years, and have the strong sanction of the President...
...parks at the center, a plain, deceptively large building that backs on St. Michael's Church, with its odd, elongated acorn spires. Geraldine and Mary Paul attend 8:30 Mass every morning, but they have no time for other formal daily prayers. There is no religious cast whatever to the center. On the ground floor are a reception room and Geraldine's office. On the upper floors, staff offices, consultation rooms, a large "family room" used for parties and group sessions. The top floor constitutes the convent for the two nuns. This is their place of privacy...
...analogous irony to the scenes in which his older sons and their advisers--among them a hypnotic Kurosawa invention, Lady Kaede (Mieko Harada), wife of Taro, lover of Jiro and a woman demonically possessed by vengeful needs of her own--meet to scheme multiple betrayals. Their still, geometrically formal groupings imply the characters' deluded faith that they are engaged in rational enterprises, when, of course, they are sowing anarchy's seeds...
Even before the formal proceedings began, Saudi Arabia's Yamani and a few other delegates issued informal price-war ultimatums. Declaring that all the world's oil producers should share in the burden of the oversupply, the ministers called on non-OPEC countries to cut back their output, or else. They apparently hoped their threat alone would make competitors fearful of a superglut and persuade them to slash production. But the message backfired. While it succeeded in panicking oil traders, the tough talk failed to frighten Britain or Norway enough to make them tighten their spigots. British officials said that...