Word: formality
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...With his formal installation in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI took his place as the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.1 billion Catholics. His young reign, however, has already shown embryonic symptoms of a perennial papal predisposition—the urge to involve the church in the temporal affairs of sovereign states...
When asked about his stance on legislation which would limit installation of soda vending machines in schools, Patrick said that he has not yet taken a formal position...
...definition, his successor and the economy over which he or she presides will start off at a disadvantage, especially if Greenspan fails to steady the rocky economy in the months ahead. Some Fed watchers are worried that the President might pluck from corporate America a CEO with little formal finance background to run the Fed, as he did with John Snow at Treasury. The most likely candidates, though, are Martin Feldstein, a Harvard professor and former head of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA); Glenn Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School, who ran the CEA during much...
...notorious World War II war criminals were added to the books of veneration there, Japan's neighbors have considered the shrine not a national and religious monument, but a hateful celebration of Japan's warmongering past. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's annual trips to the shrine unfailingly provoke formal protests from China. Two weeks ago, Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan told Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura that one of the major stumbling blocks to improving relations were politicians' visits to Yasukuni...
...tension between China and Japan comes at a time when the situation on the Korean peninsula is deteriorating and the need for multilateral diplomacy is mounting. North Korea has already declared itself a nuclear power, one that is entitled to formal disarmament talks like any other nation with nuclear arms. It is impossible to verify if Pyongyang really has the Bomb, but neighboring countries think it unwise to test whether Kim Jong Il is bluffing. So getting Pyongyang back to the negotiating table?the "six-party talks" that the North walked out of last June?becomes more urgent...