Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first side lie rational choice theorists, including department chair Kenneth A. Shepsle, who believe the increasing use of formal models has made the field more rigorous and respected...
...particular, rational choice theorists note that area specialists often are able to provide the data needed for them to map formal models across a number of countries...
...formal summit meeting was held in the Cabinet Room, crammed with aides. Clinton said the U.S. favored a leadership role for China in every international organization and therefore backed Chinese entry into the new World Trade Organization as soon as possible, but the country will have to lower its trade barriers before that happens. The Americans took pains to deny Beijing's standard propaganda charge that the U.S. is determined to prevent China from gaining great-power status. Vice President Al Gore spoke on energy and the environment, but he also said, "There is nothing in the U.S. position...
...When the formal summit wound up, it was on to the joint press conference, which turned out to be one of the most extraordinary heads-of-state shows ever. Instead of the usual bland papering over of disputes, this turned into a public argument on human rights, with the journalists looking on almost as spectators. Some U.S. officials had predicted that the press conference would let Americans see just how difficult the Chinese can be to deal with and how strange the world looks from Beijing's perspective. That was how it turned...
Nearer, My God (Doubleday; 313 pages; $24.95) is less a formal "autobiography of faith," as the subtitle has it, than a pastiche: part memoir, part commentary on religious issues past and present. No theologian by his own admission, Buckley has relied on others to do that heavy hitting. He submitted questions about the ordination of women, for example, to a "forum" of four Catholic converts, two of them priests, and prints their answers at length. On a more theoretical problem--how hell and eternal punishment are compatible with God's mercy--he cribs copiously from Difficulties (1934), an exchange...