Word: formality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...certainly can't tell this book by its cover - a portrait of five men, in formal smoking jackets and white ties, at the champagne-and-cigar end of a meal. They might be any well-heeled diners, friends, perhaps, or business colleagues. But these guests at a midnight supper in Paris' fashionable Majestic Hotel in May 1922 were the best-known artists of the age: impresario Serge Diaghilev, writers James Joyce and Marcel Proust, painter Pablo Picasso and composer Igor Stravinsky. Ostensibly they were there to celebrate the premier of Stravinsky's ballet Le Renard, performed by Diaghilev's Ballets...
...requires preconditions. During the cold war, the U.S. created and maintained many ruthless and undemocratic regimes that were eventually overthrown by their citizens. During my graduate work in the U.S. 30 years ago, I read in one of the prescribed political-science texts that the U.S. had no formal foreign policy. It is the same today. But by now the U.S., including President Bush, should better understand the problems in promoting democracy in places where it has no history. Valentine N. Anthony Baguio City, the Philippines...
...Islamabad, which has already been under virtual lockdown for the past week in anticipation of the President's visit, the bombing in Karachi only reinforced the precariousness of the country's security situation. While there has been no formal link as of yet between the bombing and the President's visit, Syed Marwat Ali Shah, the deputy inspector general of the Rawalpindi Police in charge of security admits that President Bush is clearly a target, and every precaution will be undertaken. ?You are taking every possible eventuality into account and making preparations,? he says. ?Then something happens where...
...person presidential search committee included three students and five faculty members, while Stanford University’s 14-person committee included two students and six faculty members. The most recent presidential searches at Columbia University and Duke University also included both students and faculty on the formal recommending body. Harvard stood as a lone holdout in its own 2000 presidential search. It’s committee: six members of the Corporation and three members of the Overseers...
...would suggest that the Corporation or the Board of Overseers should not play a substantial role, if not with a dominant role, in the formal search committee. But in playing that role, these bodies ought to be confronted with the opinions of the students and faculty who are the lifeblood of Harvard. Moreover, these students and faculty ought to have full and equal information about the candidates for the presidency, or else they could too easily be dismissed. The only way to ensure all this is by formally placing students and faculty on the search committee...