Word: formality
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...legislature, having beaten Mugabe's Zanu-PF Party in the parliamentary vote in March.) It was not immediately clear what led to the breakthrough, nor how the balance of power between Mugabe and Tsvangirai will be resolved. Details of the deal are to be released Monday at a formal signing ceremony...
...changes mark the formal beginning of the election season in Germany, culminating in a national election in late 2009. Both Muentefering and Steinmeier are centrists, and while they are likely to strengthen party discipline, their ascendancy could also deepen the rift between the party's center and its disaffected left wing. If the SPD's aim is to mount a unified challenge to Angela Merkel's CDU in next year's election, political commentators are pessimistic...
...decade, as Charlie--after an unsuccessful run for Congress--slips into alcoholism and idly watching ball games and pitying himself as he putters around the family meatpacking business. When Alice finally decides she's had enough and uses her mother's home as the halfway house to a formal separation, Maj calls and drops a bomb: the family had been shocked that someone as refined as Alice had chosen Charlie in the first place. "[H]e was a 31-year-old wastrel, making that preposterous congressional run, no less, and he was dating waitresses. We couldn't imagine what...
...decade, as Charlie - after an unsuccessful run for Congress - slips into alcoholism and idly watching ball games and pitying himself as he putters around the family meat packing business. When Alice finally decides she's had enough and uses her mother's home as the halfway house to a formal separation, Maj calls and drops a bomb: the family had been shocked that someone as refined as Alice had chosen Charlie in the first place. "[H]e was a 31-year-old wastrel, making that preposterous congressional run, no less, and he was dating waitresses. We couldn't imagine what...
...that he had selected Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Other messages that the campaign aimed to promote in the days leading up to the convention have also also been disrupted. For instance, McCain spoke Sunday at a rally in Missouri that brought together two of his formal rivals for the Republican nomination, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, who have had tense relations since the end of the primary campaign. Huckabee notably called Romney "my colleague and my friend," a rare expression of warmth in a mostly hostile relationship, but the show of party unity was overshadowed...