Word: formality
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Kadakia came up with the idea for the semi-formal, and student groups from Boston University, Northeastern, Wellesley, Tufts and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute helped plan the dance and shared the financial burden of renting the boat...
While Kirby wrote in an e-mail to the College on Sept. 21 that he wanted “to have a set of formal proposals that can be presented to the Faculty by the end of the academic year,” Undergraduate Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 said that the powers behind the review are aiming to move faster than that...
...highly contested evidence. By contrast, as far back as 1965, Milton Gold said in his book Education of the Intellectually Gifted, "No paradox is more striking than the inconsistency between research findings on acceleration and the failure of society to reduce the time spent by superior students in formal education." Forty years later, the authors of A Nation Deceived--Nicholas Colangelo and Susan Assouline, who teach at the University of Iowa, and Miraca Gross of the University of New South Wales in Australia-- must tell us, once again, that "we are not aware of any other educational practice that...
Rubenstein said that another reason he gave the gift was that he regretted his lack of formal training in public policy before working for the government under the Carter Administration as deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy...
...Alliot-Marie's tour earlier this month of Kosovo and Afghanistan, two hot spots where the alliance is currently active, to affirm France's abiding commitment to NATO. But underneath the irony is real iron: the Minister has solid military facts to flaunt. In Pristina, she attended the formal handover of command of Kosovo's more than 18,000 NATO peacekeepers to French Lieut. General Yves de Kermabon. Then she flew to Kabul to meet troops under French Lieut. General Jean-Louis Py, who last month took charge of NATO's 10,000-strong peacekeeping mission there. Now there...