Word: formality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comes to attracting the opposite sex." Except for weekly dinners with her two daughters, entertainment means magazine business. Parties are held at her Southampton beachfront mansion or cavernous Fifth Avenue apartment with its giant de Koonings, vast Persian rugs and a paralyzing view of Central Park. The service is formal but the tone relaxed. At a recent dinner for potential advertisers, Georgette Mosbacher, flame-haired CEO of La Prairie skin-care company and wife of the Secretary of Commerce, griped acidly about "the hatchet job" the Washington Post magazine had done on her. "What did they call you?" Lear asked...
...assessment downplayed the significance of a leadership shuffle that considerably strengthened the Soviet leader's position in his struggle against the party's conservative wing. In theory, the Central Committee functions as the party's most authoritative ruling body in the period between Communist Party congresses. It has the formal power to vote out the ruling Politburo, but it can replenish its own ranks only when a congress is convened. With the next regular congress scheduled for 1991, the Soviet leader had to be content, for the moment, with promoting 24 junior members of the present body from candidate...
Coolidge Professor of History David S.Landes,the faculty committee's chair, was not availablefor comment on the decision. Maher said that afterLandes review it, the report will be made formal...
Claiming that Cambridge police officers last month singled them out of a crowded University shuttle bus because of their race, two Black students yesterday field a formal complaint with the city's Police Review and Advisory Board...
...Dean Jewett advised [the sponsors] on the formal aspects of the resolution and in deciding whether or not it is possible," the student added...