Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...formal talks, a Soviet spokesperson said the two leaders also agreed that the theories of Karl Marx must be revised to fit the times...
Lesbian couples now appear at Radcliffe's formal Senior Soiree, and gays routinely dance together at Harvard events. That can sometimes lead to friction. In February a ruckus broke out when a gay student asked the younger brother of a straight student to dance. Gay students soon after staged a "kiss-in" to protest alleged harassment. Says Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian co-chair Kelly Dermody: "This year was wild...
...with President Francois Mitterrand last week marked the first time that he has been officially received by a major West European leader. Mitterrand took the opportunity to urge Arafat to explain the P.L.O.'s stand on the charter, and seemed pleased with the results. Although Arafat refused to back formal abrogation of the charter, Premier Michel Rocard said Arafat's statement "constituted a positive clarification in the direction of peace...
...community with one-sixth as many people as Mesa, Ariz.). Yet the U.S. has never bothered too much about the legal niceties of its anomalous territory. After President William McKinley took over the main island in 1900, fully 29 years passed before Congress deigned to make the transfer formal...
Although Shevardnadze enjoys a good joke, he is not a backslapper and insists on calling his aides by their formal names. A man of meticulous appearance who has been known to cast a flirtatious glance or two at the ladies, Shevardnadze is not a stickler for protocol; on entering a negotiating room, he unfailingly makes the rounds of all present, shaking hands and engaging in small talk. "You don't feel that he is full of his own importance," says a West German diplomat. "He's a really pleasant fellow to do business with...