Word: formality
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Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Peter Ellison said that although he had not seen a formal report from the class, he is very interested in the implications of course enrollment predictions...
...1990s, however, A.P.U. president Richard Felix envisioned the school as a flagship Christian university and launched its first formal fund-raising campaign. Under Felix, now retired, A.P.U. introduced an honors program and a science research institute, created academic scholarships to lure better students from both religious and secular high schools, quadrupled its graduate programs and nearly doubled undergraduate enrollment. Even as the school grew in size, the mean SAT score of freshmen began a steady climb, rising 72 points in the past five years, to 1,102--82 points above the national average and a sign that more serious scholars...
...Number of formal press conferences President Bush has held thus...
...Number of formal press conferences his father had held at the same point in his presidency...
...Kerry such a god-awful speaker? He's not aloof, really, but formal in an old-fashioned way. He also suffers from a severe 40-year John F. Kennedy hangover. He has a weakness for "ask not" rhetorical switchbacks: "Right now, most Americans are working for the economy. We need an economy that is working for Americans." This flourish can be deconstructed--working people are underpaid and don't receive sufficient benefits (health, education, pension) from the world's most powerful economy--but the language is abstract and overly fancy. It creates a distance between the candidate and the audience...