Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...visit whatever remains of the tiny attic chambers where the housemaids -- whose salary Prince Albert, shortly after marrying Victoria, cut from about 45 pounds to 12 pounds a year -- used to sleep, and perhaps still do. What you get for your 8 pounds is a walk through the main formal rooms: the Throne Room, the Picture Gallery, the Green, Blue and White drawing rooms, the best of which were designed by George IV's architect John Nash, and the worst by his pupil, Edward Blore. "Blore the bore," as he came to be known, took over the decoration of Buckingham...
Umberto Eco derides his country for staging formal religious services for two public figures who recently took their lives. Deeply involved in the scandals coming to light, Gardini and Cagliari had little chance of salvaging any part of their professional lives...
Harvard officials said that "a handful" of the strongest applicants are notified between January and March that their admission is likely, but that these "likely" letters are mailed without regard to race and that they do not constitute a formal offer of admission...
...sure he has a formal position yet," said Rudalevige. "I think Mike's general sense is when you talk about an expansion of gambling, there are some really large social costs involved...
...important though ambiguous U.S.-Japanese agreement emerged unexpectedly after the formal summit ended and Clinton was about to leave Tokyo. The Americans had sought a "framework" agreement to guide future negotiations aimed at reducing Japan's enormous surpluses in trade with the U.S. (nearly $50 billion a year currently). But negotiators argued through two nights, indulging in such hairsplitting quarrels over wording that at one point Clinton exclaimed, "You mean I flew all the way across the Pacific to negotiate this?" Miyazawa ordered his bargainers not to let Clinton go away empty-handed, and they complied -- though only after arguing...