Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the Iron Curtain fell at the beginning of this decade, many optimists hoped that the world's complex web of espionage would fall as well. Most corporate mavens could see through the naivete of this supposition; industrial espionage could only intensify with the dropping of formal national barriers. But, evidently, a large number of people on the inside could not tolerate the curtailing of their purportedly obsolete brand of spying...
...weekend-long event, which featured a night of student performances entitled "Phenomenal Woman," a reception with Brooks and a semi-formal gala in Adams House, featured the poet as an example of an "outstanding Black woman...
...formal guy...He has a very warmengagement with people," Aguilar says. "It makespeople like and respect him very much and put inthe extra effort needed to get things done...
...weatherman rolled into one. While he is a remnant of the family's past, Raymond is also Susannah's signpost--he points the way for her to discover the crows, her lost brood. Here we sense the title's dual meaning, that while family is murder, the "murder" (the formal term for a flock of crows) is also family...
While The Crimson received only one formal response to the story, some readers have written at length on an Internet newsgroup about concerns that speak to fundamental issues of journalistic integrity...