Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, Nixon resigned before he could be impeached and President Ford pardoned him before formal criminal charges could be brought. Had Nixon gone to trial, he very likely would have gone to jail, the first President ever to be found guilty of criminal activity...
...continued U.S. arms supplies to the mujahedin at levels "symmetrical" to Moscow's support for Najibullah? "Unacceptable" was the response by Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov, and Foreign Minister Shevardnadze threatened a unilateral Soviet pullout without an agreement at Geneva. In the end, Gorbachev apparently decided that a formal accord was too important to lose. "What they needed was a fig leaf," observed a Western diplomat in Moscow. "This allows ((the Soviets)) to preserve their position of principle...
...worked out relatively well," says Terrell, adding that the chapter has had no problems with the lack of formal ties. He says that since most upperclass males eat at eating clubs, freshmen and upperclassmen have little chance to get to know each other. "The fraternity serves in an effective way to bridge that gap," Terrell says...
Foreign policy remains the arena where Jackson's radical agenda most explosively collides with conventional political norms. Jackson's world view all but depicts South Africa as a greater threat than the Soviet Union. The candidate's formal briefing paper on "promoting real security" does not even mention in passing the need to counter Soviet mischief in the Third World. In Central America, Jackson would go far beyond cutting off funds to the contras; he would cease military assistance to the guerrilla-plagued governments of El Salvador and Guatemala because they are "waging war . . . against their own people." Not only...
...choosing the next Dalai Lama -- adopting an electoral system similar to the Vatican's, perhaps, or selecting on the basis of seniority, or even dispensing with the entire institution. "I think the time has come -- not necessarily to take a decision very soon, but to start a more formal discussion, so that people can prepare their minds...