Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Later, during formal debate on the Housebudget, Republican legislators foughtunsuccessfully to eliminate several speciallegislative committees, including panels ontaxation, criminal law and other issues. The GOPrepresentatives said those committees were costlyand unnecessary...
...days later, one of Khomeini's colleagues, President Ali Khamenei, declares that the death sentence might be rescinded if only Rushdie would repent. Rushdie duly issues a formal apology, saying he meant no insult to true believers. Will Khomeini forgive him? Will the death sentence be lifted...
...Formal debate on the nomination is scheduled to open today, and senators are reading a confidential FBI report on the former Texas senator's drinking habits, possible womanizing and lucrative consulting contracts with military companies...
...threat seriously, Rushdie, clearly shaken, replied, "I think I have to take it very seriously indeed." He canceled a planned book tour in the U.S., moved out of his four-story house in North London and, under protection of Scotland Yard's antiterrorist squad, quietly disappeared. Then, in a formal statement released on Saturday, he declared, "I profoundly regret the distress that publication has occasioned to sincere followers of Islam...
...appear that the "Harvard Alum," Mr. Laurence O. McKinney, had been prohibited from the campus for threatening students at the University. In fact, there have been no incidents of harassment excepting for the claims of a single graduate student. These allegations, made in March, 1985, were without witnesses, formal complaints or other substantiation. They were contested by me in a suit filed against the student in April...