Word: formality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dollar sign on it, and you don't buy it back." The objection is disingenuous, since Wallop thinks there is nothing to apologize for. It is also wrongheaded. Under the American system of tort law, wrongful harm is routinely acknowledged with cash payments. But to those interned, the formal apology and the removal of the stigma of disloyalty may count for far more than the cash. The country is also apologizing to itself for trampling its own core values. As the Senate bill says unflinchingly, the internment policy "was caused by racial prejudice, war hysteria and a failure of political...
...Jackson says no, Dukakis can afford to let down his reserve and hug Jackson tightly. Jackson would immediately become a great party statesman, with either a formal or an informal role, tapped and consulted on all major issues. If Jackson says yes, that he feels the Veep spot is his by right, a long and delicate dance will ensue. Dukakis will have to decide whether putting Jackson on the ticket would be more harmful than trying to exclude him, and if so, whether he has the convention votes to win such a fight...
...Christian Morals. Though the state legislature sided with the Overseers, the Corporation would not concede any of its power, and won out. Since that time, according to a 1978 report by the University's Committee on the Structure and Function of the Overseers, the Board has had "a formal 'consent' or 'allowance' role in certain fairly infrequent, major policy determinations...
Steiner says after the visits that he and Shenton told the overseers that discussion between the boards "was more appropriate, more productive, and more consistent with Harvard's form of governance" than a formal vote on the divestment question...
Until 13 years ago the Kroks were the only formal a capella singing group on campus. Today there are more than six formally established singing groups, with new clubs being founded almost every year. Together, the groups give hundreds of annual concerts everywhere from Cambridge to Moscow...