Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...members of the House Subcommittee on Health have been slaving late nights for two months. But before the panel's four Republicans would let their objections go down to defeat, they staged a bit of theater last Wednesday that was pointedly designed to embarrass President Clinton. Calling for a formal vote on the White House plan, the Republicans each voted nay. The seven Democrats, as unwilling to join the mutiny as they were uneager to embrace Clinton's expensive proposal, were forced to vote "present...
...deaf, whose number is variously estimated at between 250,000 and 2 million, is American Sign Language (ASL). That elegant mode of communication, a combination of signs and gestures, is not based on English. Thus the English reading level of the average deaf adult at the completion of formal education is usually placed somewhere between the third and the eighth grade. Says New York social-services counselor Donna Leshne: "The knowledge base is lacking. With all the ways we have of transmitting information, they're just not receiving...
Last week every faction was talking to someone. In Sarajevo the Bosnian government and Serb rebels agreed to open some roads to civilian traffic in and out of the city. In Belgrade Serbs and Croats announced that they would begin negotiating a formal settlement of the war they fought in Croatia in 1991, which left almost a quarter of Croatia in Serbian hands...
...said they will hold a meeting forstudents who are interested in these issues afterspring break, when a more formal proposal will bedrafted
Jewett, however, said he has received no formal complaints nor seen any evidence to substantiate the allegations. "It sounds very nebulous," Jewett said. The charges resemble "the kind of innuendoes," the dean added...