Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group was performing in dining halls and at alumni functions, meting out punishment in the harsh but hip manner that has become its hallmark. The crowning achievement came with the request from the faculty council to be its official disciplinary organ. After the name was changed to the more formal "Judicial Board," the group was ready to hear its first case...
...weekend, Columbia planned a parade, with some students dressed up as such famous alumni as Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, a champagne breakfast, and a formal ball...
...before the formal meeting, delegates from the Group of Seven major industrial nations -- the U.S., Japan, West Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Canada -- huddled behind closed doors at the U.S. Treasury to discuss the uncertain situation. At their gathering, Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker undoubtedly emphasized the same understated point he had made to a Senate committee earlier in the week, when he said, "Further sizable depreciation of the dollar could well be counterproductive." The ministers emerged wearily after nightfall with a three-paragraph statement. Its thrust was a reaffirmation of a declaration made by virtually the same group last...
Director Michael Shin has complemented Chin's ambitious play with a complicated set design which utilizes two formal stages as well the seating area. While Shin's staging demonstrates creative imagination, its complexity too often distracts from the action of the play itself. The program provides a long list of instructions advising the audience when to face forward and when to turn their chairs backward in order to follow scenes...
...formal announcement at Red Rocks, a park 16 miles from downtown Denver, was before his wife and daughter, reporters, cameras and staff. Hart said the Park, begun with federal funds during the Depression, "is a symbol of what a benevolent government...