Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since its formal recognition last November, the union has been preparing for the upcoming contract negotiations. Next week the support staff will elect 70 or more representatives for the negotiations; University officials say Harvard has not yet chosen a formal negotiating team. Both sides say they hope negotiations will start by the end of February...
Last week ASEAN foreign ministers met to lay the groundwork for another "informal meeting" in Jakarta that will bring together the Kampuchean government, some if not all of the rebel factions, China, Viet Nam and Thailand. The object is to set up a formal peace parley aimed at devising a government power-sharing formula, nailing down a Vietnamese withdrawal timetable and establishing international monitoring of the peace...
...this diverse plenty a consistently high quality of thought and prose, and one has the makings of a Man of Letters -- a quaint designation in this era of celebrity scribes, but valid nevertheless. Wilson's formal structure and traditional style indicate an impatience with the sort of contemporary fiction that makes its own creation a central concern. What matters to him is the contradictions of human nature and the religious impulses that seek to understand the desires of the flesh and the spirit...
Word of the Nanjing violence set off further outbreaks. In Hangzhou, African students boycotted classes. In Wuhan and Beijing, hundreds of Chinese students staged anti-African demonstrations. The Gambia government registered a formal protest, and diplomats from Ghana and Benin voiced displeasure over Chinese treatment of their nationals. But overall reaction from the continent was restrained, reflecting the conflicting nuances of Africa's dealings with China: gratitude for decades of Chinese support; familiarity with Chinese ; racism, which has been intensified by economic frustrations; and worries about how to protect existing links with Beijing...
...divine status came naturally, perhaps, to a man who had never seemed at home amid the panoply of godhood. Instead of the ornate Imperial Palace, Hirohito chose to live in a nondescript two-story Western- style house deep inside the palace grounds. Rather than hold court in resplendent formal dress, he preferred to putter around in battered Panama hat and short-sleeved shirt. More than formal dinners, he relished quiet nights at home with Empress Nagako, now 85, a cheerful wife with whom he had two sons and five daughters...