Word: formality
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...Korean peninsula." The North Koreans also dropped their demand for the sub in return for the remains of their dead. A day later the North agreed to sit down with the U.S. and South Korea to talk about starting four-power (North, South, U.S. and China) negotiations on a formal peace settlement of the Korean War 43 years after its end. North Korea faced a choice: belligerent business as usual, possibly leading to the regime's collapse, or knuckling under to demands from South Korea and the U.S. for better behavior. After reviewing the options, Pyongyang blinked. Says Assistant Secretary...
...White House counsel begins her formal prep sessions this week for a confirmation hearing that's likely to start in early November, President Bush will hold a photo op with former chief justices of the Texas Supreme Court who will testify to Miers' qualifications and legal mind. The White House's 20-person "confirmation team" will line up news conferences, opinion pieces and letters to the editor by professors and former colleagues who can talk about Miers' experience dealing with such real-world issues as the Voting Rights Act when she was a Dallas city council member and Native American...
...first line of the Lewis Albert collection was specifically tailored to Harvard women in response to the many social and formal events, which are organized throughout the year...
...Over the summer, [Anderson and Edin] repeatedly discussed the issues that separated them and they eventually resolved their differences privately,” Allison wrote in the statement. “At the time, all parties expressed full satisfaction with their agreement.”No formal request for an inquiry was ever lodged, and neither the university nor the department considered any disciplinary action, Allison wrote.Nonetheless, Bershady’s accusation prompted Sara McLanahan, a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University, to defend Edin in a letter to the editor in the Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn?...
...Japanese master surgeon; David K.C. Cooper, the old-school British surgeon; and Sachs himself, a New York native who was nearly crippled by polio in the 1940s. But, save a few revealing outbursts in group meetings, Miller has trouble getting any of the players to go off-message, quoting formal-sounding statements in multi-paragraph chunks. They escape from their interviews with their press armor intact...