Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This sends an appalling message," a senior government official said afterward. "There is concern that some police might feel they need to act a certain way because of the Chinese." As for Tung, he went off to the Chinese city of Shenzhen the next day to receive Beijing's formal endorsement. He will officially take office on July 1, 1997, the day Hong Kong reverts to China...
...formal vote was hours away, but by lunchtime the champagne corks were popping on the 37th floor of the United Nations Secretariat in New York City. The preceding weeks had been filled with intense diplomatic scuffling, terminating in one final big-power temper tantrum. But by 1 o'clock Friday afternoon, it was certain that Kofi Annan of Ghana was to be the seventh Secretary-General of the U.N., succeeding the reluctantly retiring Boutros Boutros-Ghali on Jan. 1. The jubilation in the U.N. building was heartfelt: Annan was perhaps the most popular candidate among those who worked...
Catholic Deacon Jacqueline L. Landry agreed, but expressed doubt that the board will create a formal Harvard policy in February, given the current uncertainty surrounding the issue...
Other house committees, though, do not have a formal budget...
...just use [the money earned during the year] for the formal and other events," says Susan deRoberts '97, co-chair of the Mather House Committee. "We usually lose money on the formal...