Word: formality
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...People pointed out the positives of the Yale system—that it provides more contact with more upperclassmen and a more formal advising structure—but that doesn’t mean that an official assignment to an upper class house from the beginning is the answer,” said Dingman...
...process is beginning. [Columbia] must find a way for students to lodge formal complaints and be protected while doing so,” Fish said...
...PetroChina. But as one of America’s most recognizable and respected institutions, Harvard has an opportunity to spur a divestment campaign in this country. If the University divests, other investment funds susceptible to public pressure, such as state pension funds, may choose to divest as well. With formal economic sanctions in the U.N. rendered impossible by China’s veto power on the Security Council and military intervention in Sudan unlikely at best, Harvard must lead the movement to divest—starving the Sudanese government of the support it requires to fund the genocide in Darfur...
...Masochism) arises as part of larger gay male culture. Affiliated with the leather and biker subcultures, the BDSM practitioners described by Larry Townsend in the popular book “The Leatherman’s Handbook” create an “old guard” culture with formal rules and fixed playable roles. Sadomasochism becomes increasingly affiliated with the American gay community...
Breaking with the formal speech pattern rigidly followed at first—an argument followed by one rebuttal, then a new question—the two sides went back and forth several times over the merits of the continued U.S. presence in Iraq, reaching as little consensus as their candidates...