Word: formality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those certainly were the expectations. Bush and his advisers had portrayed the three pleasant but slightly enervating weeks since the Inauguration as merely the interlude before the drum rolls heralding the formal presentation of his legislative program. White House aides talked confidently of the President's "action agenda." Bush had been predicting publicly that Congress would not like his courageous proposals, even as he artfully wooed legislators to ensure a warm reception. By the time the new President made his triumphal entrance into the House chamber, beaming and backslapping like a joyful alum at a Yale reunion, the stage...
First, you stated that PBHA and HAND have broached a new topic in their talks--that of a possible "merger." In fact, nothing new is being discussed. A dialogue between the two bodies began with the inception of the HAND programs in 1982. This dialogue has consisted of both formal and informal meetings and discussions with the administration and the HAND coordinators. PBH is not "asking" the HAND programs to merge with them. Rather, as has always been the case, PBHA welcomes others to join our ranks and benefit from our resources and experience. In the past, programs such...
Volunteering students pay World Teach $3,100 for airfare and administrative costs to teach in Kenyan schools five hours a day for one year. Though most volunteers have no formal teaching experience, they work in community schools, called "Harambee," each of which can serve anywhere from 10 to 500 students. As many as 200 can pass through a single teacher's classroom...
...fellows at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics (IOP) explored the relation between public work and their private lives at a formal panel discussion last night at an IOP Forum...
...past two months, HUCTW and University officials have worked to make the contract negotiations easier. An informal transition team, established to ease the way into formal discussions, met regularly throughout December and January. Both University and union representatives say the meetings have improved relations, which had been strained after the long struggle for unionization...