Word: formality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crew, visited an Arizona Indian reservation to interview a 14-year-old Apache girl, the subject of a custody battle between her natural mother and the white couple who had adopted her. Allen contends that the girl wants to leave the reservation, though the mother has formal custody. The commissioner and the psychologist picked the girl up for the interview on her way home from school. Although they then took her to her mother, the mother filed a kidnaping charge against Allen. He was arrested by local police and detained for five hours...
Battisti says that he and members of the team occasionally helped Reggie with his studies but that the school does not have a budget for formal tutoring. He says the real problem was that Reggie failed to apply himself. "Abe Lincoln and them people were self-taught," he said. But Reggie's teachers say he did try, he struggled to overcome a third-grade reading level, fought off the exhaustion of practice and in the end succumbed to the realization that he could not catch up. "He was hoping against hope," says Jack Carmichael, who heads the school's social...
Workingwomen's resentment of the two-track notion has burst into the open, sparked by a management expert's proposal to introduce a formal basis for such a discriminatory system. Put forth by author Felice Schwartz in an article in the January-February issue of the Harvard Business Review (title: "Management Women and the New Facts of Life"), the plan suggests relegating most working mothers to a gentle career path, which wags have dubbed the Mommy Track. Only women willing to set aside family considerations would be singled out for the fast lane to the executive suite. The startling idea...
...investment to groom working mothers for high-level jobs. In fact, such corporations as Corning Glass and Merck have found that the costly career-track disruptions of parenthood can be reduced when companies help their employees balance the demands of work and family life. Thus the emergence of a formal Mommy Track strikes many people as archaic, especially at a time when companies are offering working parents a helping hand in the form of flextime, parental leave, day care and other programs...
...about how much freedom should be tolerated, let alone encouraged, in Eastern Europe. Conservative Politburo member Viktor Chebrikov, former head of the KGB, last month berated "antisocial elements" for attempting to "direct the masses toward anarchy." Pravda responded contrarily, suggesting that the ruling party might have to consider even "formal agreements" with independent groups. At the same time, the Kremlin has put down in the Baltic republics the kind of political muscle flexing it has tolerated farther south...