Word: formality
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...With year-round light of relentless intensity, Broken Hill has always lured the occasional painter. But authorities are giving formal encouragement these days through the establishment of international artist exchanges, artist-in-residence programs and annual scholarships. Hobby artists from around Australia are also flocking to the town for workshops in outback landscapes...
Gross attended the council meeting as a guest speaker and used his time to summarize the curricular review’s formal report, written by Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz, which is scheduled to be released today. Wolcowitz’ report is based on the findings of the four working groups of the curricular review...
...question of whether they were advised which courses to take. Only 31 percent of economics concentrators said “yes” to the question of whether their academic interests were discussed. Thus the great talent and promise students bring to the College is squandered. The formal advising system is an evident failure. Isolated geographically and socially from upperclass students, first-years do not have frequent access to informal advising...
...Hanssen, who spied for the Russians for years while working inside the FBI. And many of the things that went "according to the book" inside the FBI made no sense at all. For years agents were barred from searching open sources, such as the Internet, without first opening a formal investigation. Agents had a deeply ingrained habit of keeping information to themselves and filing paper reports. There was no computer network permitting broad searches for terms like Arabs and flight schools. The FBI's greasy pole was tilted, leaning away from counterterrorism work and toward the traditional pursuit of such...
...seemed unable to decide whether to apologize or come out swinging. Tenet acknowledged that the CIA "made mistakes" and warned that it would take an additional five years to rebuild the clandestine service. In what is perhaps the closest anyone in the Bush Administration has come to a formal acknowledgment of responsibility, Tenet said, "We all understood bin Laden's attempt to strike the homeland, but we never translated this knowledge into an effective defense of the country." But Cofer Black, head of the CIA's clandestine service who holds the storied title of director for operations, was unbowed...