Word: formality
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Following the dance performance, the models began coming down the runway dressed in traditional West African formal wear. The clothes from the first half of the show were borrowed primarily from Africana Arts and Crafts, a store located in Somerville, Mass. Some of the outfits, however, came from the models’ personal closets...
Overseers give formal approval to Corporation decisions on appointments and other major initiatives and serve on visiting committees that evaluate graduate schools, departments and museums...
...last June, not long after the landmark Supreme Court decision that struck down a Texas anti-sodomy law and, by extension, all state laws that criminalized homosexual acts. In his 63 majority opinion, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy insisted that the case "does not involve whether the government must give formal recognition to any relationship homosexual persons seek to enter." In a concurrence, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that the "traditional institution of marriage" was not in play. But in his furious dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia warned that the ruling would nonetheless lead to challenges not only to state laws...
...least for a while, Shanon Delaney enjoyed the sweet thrill of marriage. On Valentine's Day 2001, the hair stylist, 32, and his partner wed in a civil-union ceremony. Three years later, that formal recognition made their breakup a little easier to bear. They went to family court and made it official again. Delaney kept the cats; his partner kept the car. "I call it my divorce," Delaney says. "That way everyone can understand what I went through...
...uprising, has his own issues. According to classified Haitian documents seen by TIME, he is under investigation by Haitian and U.S. officials for allegedly heading a cocaine-trafficking ring in the 1990s for which he purportedly recruited other top Haitian cops. Philippe denies any narco ties, and no formal charges have been brought against...