Word: formality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...structure is more formal at Bush headquarters, where Baker's authority $ is explicit as well as implicit. At 7:30 each morning, seated around the conference table in Baker's office are roughly the same seven or eight key people, including Atwater, TV guru Roger Ailes, pollster Robert Teeter and chief of staff Craig Fuller. "What's the line of the day?" is Baker's invariable call to order -- and that question perfectly encapsulates the bumper-sticker mind-set that dominates both campaigns. Teeter provides the initial answer, usually based on his latest polling. The mood is virtually always...
...highs of 1984, when the Summer Games were held on home ground in Los Angeles and, in the wake of a Soviet-led boycott, U.S. athletes won 83 gold medals. ABC's coverage then was so full of pro-U.S. cheerleading that athletes from other nations made a formal complaint...
...first time that the Law School has created formal faculty and student committees to ensure diverse input to the selection process, said professor of Law Robert C. Clark...
Superintendents will also conduct formal fire inspections twice a year, said Quincy House Superintendent Ronald W. Levesque...
...father started out shining shoes, mowing lawns and "watching cars" in that estimable neighborhood. When he eventually found formal work, ultimately as a brakeman on the railroad, it carried him far from home for considerable stretches. With a willow switch, Mary took charge. "She applied some disciplines just for discipline's sake," recalls Jackie, "like making us wear our clothes back-to-back. 'Why the same thing two days in a row?' I'd plead. 'Can't I stagger them?' 'No,' she'd say. 'This is the rule of the house...