Word: formality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FORMAL recognition of Radcliffe's status no doubt would meet opposition from Radcliffe administrators, ever aware of Radcliffe's importance both to its alumnae and to the history of women's education in America. Yet there is no reason why Radcliffe's place in history should be undermined if its current real function, as an institute, is acknowledged...
Growing up in Daly City, near San Francisco, Madden heeded his father's advice to resist formal work as long as possible. (In fact, forever.) Earl Madden, an auto mechanic, knew from experience, "Once you take a job, that's it." In constant cahoots with his best pal at Our Lady of Perpetual Help grade school, the present Los Angeles Rams coach John Robinson, young Madden tried the pool halls and bowling alleys before settling on the caddie house as his preferred den of iniquity. There he learned about shuffling cards, pitching nickels and living life. He recalls, "I shagged...
...characterized by severe seasonal mood swings. "This is more than the winter blahs," says Psychiatrist Carla Hellekson of Fairbanks. "This is something that needs to be taken care of." Researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health began studying and defining the syndrome in the early 1980s; it received formal acceptance this spring, when it was included for the first time in the American Psychiatric Association's bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Third Edition). Says NIMH Research Psychiatrist Norman Rosenthal, a pioneer in SAD studies: "People who suffer from depression are less able to cope with...
...support of Central America. The same week that the Reagan-Wright plan was announced, the Presidents of five Central American nations gathered in Guatemala City and signed a plan of their own. This was largely the handiwork of Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias Sanchez, a soft-spoken, stiffly formal politician who had taken office only 15 months before. Arias labored quietly and relentlessly to come up with a peace agreement that all the region's combatants might endorse. Arias' plan was much easier on the Sandinistas than the U.S. proposals had been, but it did require a cease-fire...
Gorbachev remained open and accessible to his constituents. He usually set out on foot for his job each morning. Stavropolitans quickly learned that they could avoid having to make a formal appointment at Gorbachev's office on Lenin Square by buttonholing him on his walk up Dzerzhinsky Street and discussing their problems then. He also began in Stavropol Krai the walkabouts that were later to cause a national sensation when he continued the practice as General Secretary. On a visit to a village in the Izobilnynsky district, he heard from an indignant mother of six children how the manager...