Word: formality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earliest the bill is expected to reach the House floor is tomorrow since no formal House session is scheduled for today, and it is expected to take a day to write the formal comprise report once House-Senate negotiations are completed...
...delay in formal action on the savings package affects the tax bill since many House members want to vote on the savings compromise before turning again to taxes...
Chagall: The Russian Years, 1907-1922 by Aleksandr Kamensky (Rizzoli; $100). Like the figures in his paintings, Marc Chagall (1887-1985) floated over formal artistic boundaries. This book tracks his flight from the Russian village that gave him his themes and folk style to St. Petersburg and beyond, where he reflected his past in modernism's bright palette and broken planes...
...ready to accept any form of reunification," he declared. "It would have a major destabilizing effect." Even a loose East-West German confederation, he said, would create internal problems for Gorbachev and tensions with the West. Migranyan suggested that the Soviet Union, the U.S., France and Britain formally agree to prevent any joining of the Germanys in the near future. Grunwald demurred, pointing out that the U.S. could never accept such a formal accord because of Washington's official commitment to the goal of reunification. Moreover, said Grunwald, the Soviets could do little to prevent such a course...
Representatives of the government and Eritrean rebels, mediated by Jimmy Carter, agreed last week to hold formal peace talks, but any settlement will come too late to put food in bloated stomachs...