Word: formality
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Princeton, officers are assigned to campus student groups and residence halls so that safety messages can also be delivered in person. And while HUPD officers sometimes eat in dining halls and hold “safety talks” in first-year dorms and Houses, Harvard lacks the formal structure modeled by Princeton...
Some schools created formal retirement incentive plans, offering professors a year’s salary to leave before...
...many Faculty remain upset that they will have little formal say in a process that could move substantial components of FAS across the river. Summers said at a November Faculty meeting on the subject that it was not the Faculty’s prerogative to vote on Allston plans...
...refugees. It's hardly surprising, given the fact that Haiti's economy has ground almost entirely to a halt, as poverty, AIDS and rampaging violence and criminality have reduced life expectancy to an average of around 49 years, that the government is under mounting pressure to quit. The formal political opposition coalition blames Aristide for the chaos: They have never accepted the results of legislative elections in 2000 that were deemed fraudulent by international monitors, and they boycotted that year's presidential election that saw Aristide reelected. Although the election was certified as clean by observers, three quarters...
...While the formal opposition has tried to distance itself from the armed gangs that are now fighting Haitian police for control of whole cities, Aristide's supporters see no such distinction. They brand the whole opposition movement as an attempt to turn back the clock by the Haitian elite that had flourished for decades under the vicious Duvalier dictatorships...