Word: formality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...voted 273 to 28 to merge with the nearly twice as large Liberal Party. The two centrist groups had been partners under the Alliance banner since 1981, and began talking merger when their candidates won only 22 of 650 seats in last year's parliamentary elections. But while their formal marriage was intended to strengthen future showings, it sealed a bitter divorce between the Social Democrats and former Leader David Owen, who co-founded the party in 1981. Arguing that the Social Democrats would be swallowed up by the Liberals, Owen bolted with a clutch of followers to form...
Officials told a reporter from Boston radio station WBCN to switch off her tape recorder during the formal acceptance and counting of the HRAAA signatures...
MASS Hall fears the public embarassment that would come from a formal Overseer vote for divestment and is willing to go to some lengths to prevent it. Two years ago, President Bok blatantly tried to influence the Overseer election by asking Overseer head Joan T. Bok '51 (no relation) to mail a letter to all alumni criticizing the campaign of three pro-divestment candidates. And last year, the University fielded an unusually strong slate of Overseer candidates in order to prevent the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid from winning any more seats. The victory of three pro-divestment candidates...
...testimony came as U.S.-Panamanian allegations have continued to worsen after formal allegations that Noriega was deeply involved in illicit drug smuggling...
...formal indictment may not topple Noreiga, but it will push him into a corner, said former U.S. Ambassador to Panama Ambler Moss yesterday. He compared Noriega to the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos and Haiti's Jean-Claude Duvalier...