Word: formality
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...role model,” he said. “It doesn’t have to be a formal type of thing—just someone to bounce ideas off when things are tough in class...
...with the Vice President. While Bush has shown an ability to reverse himself in the face of heavy headwinds, suddenly embracing the 9/11 commission or campaign-finance reform, Cheney takes pride in not backing down. In March 2004, when Cheney was about to walk onstage to deliver his first formal excoriation of Senator John Kerry as being soft on Saddam, a frantic aide telephoned to urge him to tone it down. A suicide car bomber had just torn the front off a hotel in central Baghdad. Cable news was going crazy, and aides had nightmares of Cheney speaking in split...
...this personal attention makes them feel better. So why not build on the placebo effect? Jureidini's team is working with 20 GPs in a soon-to-be-expanded pilot program that embraces, he says, a "third way" of treating depression in children and adolescents: instead of drugs or formal talk therapies, they get "rehabilitation" based on exercise, dietary changes, better sleep habits - and talk, to try to find out "what's worrying the kid rather than what's wrong with him." Many doctors would call these chicken-soup remedies. But in all but perhaps the worst cases, says Jureidini...
...mark. While an adult selling even an ounce of marijuana or growing one marijuana plant within three blocks of a university is subject to a one-year mandatory minimum sentence under federal law, students at Harvard are more likely to face a “formal warning” or, at worst, probation for their marijuana...
...House’s response, he says, could involve referral to a clinician, a conversation between the student and House Masters, a formal House warning, or some combination of the three...