Word: formality
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...start to feel queasy. The island has been governed independently since the defeated forces of Chiang Kai-shek retreated there in 1949. Beijing wants to see the island reunited with the mainland one day. The U.S., although it has a one-China policy and has no formal diplomatic mission in Taiwan, is committed to defend Taiwan from an unprovoked attack by China...
...that meeting or the next, the formal election took place at concurrent sessions of the Corporation and Board of Overseers, according to the letter...
...other companies." In fact, no one has been charged as a result of Kimberlin's hell-raising. Yvonne Varano, who analyzes Diebold for investment firm Jefferies & Co. Inc., says the blogosphere's war on the company "has had a minimal effect" on its stock price. Diebold is under formal investigation by the SEC, whose spokesman declined to comment, but Varano said the inquiry is focused on accounting practices. Notably, no one has yet successfully claimed Kimberlin's reward, which has now grown...
...surveys themselves. If every undergraduate is required to complete the evaluations, it should also require them to complete a very basic form of pre-registration for the courses that they intend to take the following semester. This would by no means be a binding declaration, but rather a formal expression of interest in the group of courses that one is contemplating for the next term, however many courses that...
...diminish the need for faculty members to guess the number of students they’ll attract and the number of TFs they’ll require, and would lead to significant improvements in the quality of the instructors that wind up teaching undergraduate sections. By making the process formal, but not binding, we stand to benefit from better-planned teaching staffs while avoiding the harms of over-planned academic programs...