Word: formality
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...years, the Hong Kong Jockey Club has been at the center of the city's social life. The club's private boxes and formal restaurants, scattered throughout the organization's two first-class horse-racing stadiums, are among the top local spots to be seen in, cozy venues where ?lite HKJC members schmooze over racks of lamb and roasted guinea fowl. Meanwhile, in the stands below, million-dollar thoroughbreds saunter around the paddock under the watchful gaze of the masses, who habitually turn up for meets in hopes of winning enough on a long shot to qualify to join...
...means, is a de facto political entity with its own constitution and a government under a gradually maturing democratic system. Taiwan's people are fed up with being spectators of a tedious "one China" tug-of-war. What we desperately need from the international community is basic respect and formal recognition of our sovereign status. Taiwan's interests should not be sacrificed as U.S. foreign policy leans toward accommodating China for the foreseeable future. Chang Huan-Lin Tucheng, Taiwan...
...chairman and the managing directors at Reliance Industries had been redefined without his approval. "I sincerely hope ... we will revert to our earlier system of consultations/discussions/mutual consent," Anil wrote. Three months later, the tone of his missives had become more strident. On Oct. 25, Anil shot off a formal letter to Mukesh complaining that he had received no reply to his July e-mail and expressing "deep concern at this unhappy turn of events, and the sad reflection it represents of how we are seeking to preserve, and carry forward the legacy ... of our beloved founder Chairman, Dhirubhai Ambani...
...Last week the Sydney 18-year-old kicked on after his school formal, not creasing his sheets till dawn. The weight and hair he lost as a result of treatment have returned. All being well, he'll start driving and a hospitality course in the New Year, and it won't be long before he's playing sport as exuberantly as he was until, at 15, he noticed a lump on his right arm that turned out to be a symptom of Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymphatic system. Treatment cured him and he was briefly healthy again...
Opened in 1996, Spring Creek is the largest WWASPS affiliate, with about 600 teenagers in residence. It is owned and operated by twin brothers Cameron and Chaffin Pullan, 33. Neither Pullan is a college graduate or has any formal training in child development. Cameron worked as a YMCA day-care administrator, and Chaffin served as a residential manager for a WWASPS program in Utah before starting the school in Thompson Falls, Mont. But the brothers pride themselves on their self-taught proficiency in rehabilitating kids. "We help build confidence," says Chaffin, "through character building...