Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...undergraduate and graduate students at the University have also received invitations for Rudenstine's formal inauguration on October...
Later this month, the Lavender Alliance will issue formal endorsements of candidates for City Council. But according to Lipkin, the idea that gays should support gay politicians is "terrifically naive...
...Council, a body made up of Gorbachev and the top officials of 10 republics, was to grant independence to the three Baltic republics. The move, which a mere month ago would have dazzled the world, last week seemed belated and inevitable, coming four days after the U.S. had extended formal recognition to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and scores of other nations had already done the same...
Thus 9 is the source of magic squares, pool-table pyramids, and various patterns that reproduce themselves indefinitely. Most of us, however, know it on less formal terms: as a friend to decision making (9 judges on the Supreme Court) and the key to the heavens (9 planets and 9 Muses). Statisticians covet it -- since if all 9 members of a baseball team have 9 at bats (in any number of 9-inning games), their batting averages can be computed instantaneously (2 for 9 is .222, 3 for 9 is .333, 4 for 9 is .444, and so on, through...
...calls "the diktats of fashion," whereby certain garments and accessories can be worn only in particular settings -- silk for splendor, denim for fun. In his designs for Chanel, the maestro is mixing up materials -- tweed, denim, grosgrain -- with such sleight of hand that some of his efforts look more formal than his variations on the house's classic...