Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lived in my dorm and generally had a very good time after that first rough month getting used to people and living with them. I found an activity I truly enjoyed, witnessed my first Primal Scream (I still shudder), chose a concentration, and found love at the First-Year Formal. There was also the drama of "blocking." I prayed each night before the housing lottery that I wouldn't get "Quadded." Fortunately, I ended up in Quincy House, which I liked for several different reasons, one being that it doesn't have the pretentious aura that some Houses are known...
...Carney. "He?s been in the Senate 23 years. He?s 65 years old. If he was ever going to run, he might as well do it now." Hatch made his unofficial announcement Tuesday in his favorite public-speaking venue ?- the Senate hallway -? and promised a low-key formal announcement in a few days. And he?s warning that "my life has been a long string of surprises...
...niche--and thus limited--markets. Still others are so nascent that they are little more than a concept hoping to cash in quickly. Profits? They don't even have revenue. Drugstore.com an online prescription-drug company, has filed for an IPO even though it has only three months of formal results. The IPO may do well anyway. The company has a top-notch underwriter in Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. It is the first online company of its kind to attempt to sell shares to the public, and it's backed by savvy Internet investors, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos...
Diana was a sacrificial symbol in several ways. First she became the patron saint of victims, the sick, the discriminated against, the homeless. Then, partly through her real suffering at the hands of a rigidly formal family trained to play rigidly formal public roles, and partly through her shrewd manipulation of the press, Diana herself projected a compelling image of victimhood. Women in unhappy marriages identified with her; so did outsiders of one kind or another, ethnic, sexual or social. Like many religious idols, she was openly abused and ridiculed, in her case by the same press that stoked...
...anniversary celebrated with three formal convocations...