Word: formalization
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Sullivan's formal education ended in the fifth grade, and he got his first job at age 12 driving a six-horse team. In his early teens, Harvard students hung his nickname on him. Undergraduates dressed Mickey up in a tuxedo, and called him "the Dude." It stuck...
Despite his lack of a formal education, Mickey "could debate anyone on the council floor, no matter who he was," his son Edward says...
...travails. Traditionally, schooling for the deaf featured attempts, usually unsuccessful, to get them to learn and speak languages they couldn't hear. In the early 1800s, however, American instructors, acknowledging deaf practice, began teaching a language composed entirely of gestures. ASL became the backbone of almost all formal schooling for the deaf. In 1880, however, educators reverted to a philosophy called oralism. Unlike ASL, oralism was committed to English: written, lip-read and spoken...
...formal offer and I haven't made any decisions," she said. "I'm certainly going to consider it very, very seriously...
...along with getting an escape valve for 50,000 dissatisfied citizens, Fidel is closer than he has ever been to seeing at least a partial end to the U.S. embargo and a formal recognition of what has been the most brutal dictatorship in the history of a country remarkable for its brutal and corrupt dictators. The New York Times has recently reported that a "blueprint" for talks between Cuba and the U.S. are imminent...