Word: formality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brian Mulroney's government may have knowingly violated U.S. laws by hiring Deaver. In particular, they questioned the possible role played by Allan Gotlieb, Canada's highly regarded Ambassador to Washington, in recruiting Deaver. The House of Commons' External Affairs Committee will decide this week whether to launch a formal investigation...
...carefully controlled 67-minute session at which Shcherbina spoke was the first formal briefing since the accident began. Officials conceded that while the accident occurred at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, some 36 hours passed before the evacuation of the 49,000 residents in the vicinity of Pripyat, the settlement that houses power station workers, their families and others. Shcherbina said that the accident probably started with a chemical explosion. He also revealed that two fire fighters died battling the blaze in Unit No. 4, and 18 of the 204 people hospitalized with radiation sickness since the accident were...
...pray you, sir, do not make me blush as it ill becomes me." There she stands in colonial costume, eyes modestly downcast, softly speaking in the formal rhythms of the 18th century--the incarnation of the Revolutionary War heroine whose story Professor Michael Burgess has won the Pulitzer Prize for retelling. So smitten is he with the idea of meeting her in the flesh that he forgets he is actually encountering an actress named Faith Healy (Michelle Pfeiffer), leading lady of the Hollywood company that is turning his college town into a location for a distressingly free adaptation...
Although there are no formal statistics on date rape at Harvard, Porter Honnet said that "there certainly have been some cases--We'd really be burying our heads in the sands if we said it couldn't happen here...
...strengthen our complaint and nothing that damages it." Among the findings: a photograph illustrating one of Gallo's key papers on the discovery of the virus actually depicted the Pasteur strain. The mistake may have been accidental, but it has proved embarrassing to Gallo, who last month published a formal admission of the error...