Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tradition of Radcliffe convocation, called the Formal Opening until 1967, dates back to 1925, when the first was held. The College stopped holding convocation in 1968, and it was reestablished for first-year women...
...that excuse is gone, and the other Arab states must decide whether to jump on the peace bandwagon or be left behind. Jordan and Israel have already worked out the principles of an agreement that both sides want to sign as soon as possible. Without benefit of a formal treaty, the two countries cooperate on matters like sharing the waters of the Jordan River. At the last round of peace talks in June, their negotiators fell to discussing pest control in the neighboring towns of Eilat and Aqaba. Says Shimon Peres: "We were left without subjects except for mosquitoes...
...England. Black Comedy relies on the gimmick of pretending that lights are out when they are on, so people stumble about in unintended sexual tangles while the audience chortles from the superiority of being able to see. It's possible to beguile audiences while amusing oneself with a formal problem -- Alan Ayckbourn does it all the time. But Ayckbourn remembers that comedy derives best from believable characters and situations that arouse empathy. However crowded Shaffer's stage, there's nobody home...
Ideologues and historians will long debate the role that sanctions played in bringing an end to the white-dominated state, but there is no doubt the ban took a heavy economic toll. Most member countries of the United Nations levied formal bans against South African investment, prohibitions that were buttressed in the U.S. by similar bans on the part of 179 localities and states. Even after George Bush proclaimed the formal end of U.S. sanctions in 1991, many of those strictures remained in place. Countless private firms also decided to wait until they received an official go-ahead from...
...myself didn't estimate the [possibility] of having formal sessions and certainly not another committee," says Rudenstine. He does want to see general discussion of the issue in the Faculty and the general community, he says...