Word: formality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Whitla survey, according to the Globe, was returned by 1,409 Harvard freshman. By its very nature, this "universe" is hardly an average sampling of SAT candidates. At a school as selective as Harvard, a smaller percentage of students will seek or benefit from formal testing preparation. (If the Globe article was accurate, 200 of those returning surveys took any form of preparation.) It seems obvious that startingly different statistics would have resulted if this study had been done at the University of Massachusetts...
Gorbachev's flourish did the trick. The next day Diego Cordovez, the United Nations mediator in the Afghan talks, announced that representatives from Pakistan and the Soviet-backed government in Afghanistan, the two formal parties to the talks, would sit down again in Geneva on March 2. Said the U.N. diplomat: "The gap ((on the time span)) has been closed to a point where I think a specific agreement at Geneva is clearly foreseeable." U.S. officials were also pleased. Said a senior Reagan official: "The move shows a boldness on the part of Gorbachev. If the Soviets withdraw, it will...
Victor Hugo Tinoco, Nicaragua's deputy foreign minister, said the cardinal called off the talks before he could deliver a formal, written response that would have accepted the mediator's five-point plan...
Tinoco said the government's formal response accepted the cardinal's five-point proposal in principle, but said it was "indispensable to arrive at a definition and agreement" on his cease-fire plan...
...Alan Levine, assistant head tutor of government, Putnam created the award when he "noticed that a lot of thing were rewarded in the department but not teaching." Peterson said dissertation prizes and research fellowships have been available for years but until now "teaching has had no form of formal recognition...