Word: formality
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...retiring from retirement." NELSON MANDELA, closing the curtain on his very active public life, five years after officially retiring from his formal post as South Africa's President...
...Raise a glass of sweet, velvety port in the evening, and all at once you're part of a time-honored tradition?because the port-wine area in Portugal's Douro region is home to the world's oldest formal wine demarcation. In 1756, Prime Minister Marques de Pombal enacted this measure partly in hopes of reducing the power of British exporters who'd taken a liking to Portuguese wine when relations with France soured. It failed on that score; British and Portuguese wine producers continued to flourish side by side. Their vineyards adjoined on the steep, schist hillsides along...
...immensely fascinating and challenging. There was enormous breadth to the things that you had to know because it ranged from doing the guarantees of New York City debt, the bailout of Chrysler, opening up formal relations with China, the Banking Act of 1978, and the freeze of Iranian assets,” Mundheim says...
Raise a glass of sweet, velvety port in the evening, and all at once you're part of a time-honored tradition - because the port wine area in Portugal's Douro region is home to the world's oldest formal wine demarcation. In 1756, Prime Minister Marques de Pombal enacted this measure partly in hopes of reducing the power of British exporters who'd taken a liking to Portuguese wine when relations with France soured. It failed on that score; British and Portuguese wine producers continued to flourish side by side. Their vineyards adjoined on the steep, schist hillsides along...
...made men, with chapters such as "How Wiseguys Take Over a Business" (start violent fights in a bar, then press the owner for "insurance protection") and "Wiseguy Table Manners" (tough guys order before the ladies). Given the colorful subject matter, his writing at times seems a bit dry, even formal. (Maybe that's because Pistone was in law enforcement, used to filling out just-the-facts-ma'am crime reports.) Still, the skinny here is often sensational, and reading the section about how to carry out a hit will almost make you feel the cold, steely tickle...