Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reconvene Congress because representatives might not support military action. "Maybe it was too much to ask with the gridlock of the budget and on the eve of the election," Senator Daniel P. Moynihan told the New York Times, commenting on the failure of Congress to request a formal meeting with the Bush administration to discuss Gulf policy...
...waved a broom and promised to clean up the bespattered administration of Washington's Mayor Marion Barry, convicted of possessing cocaine. And if housekeeping seemed somewhat foreign to the stiffly formal lawyer and former electric-utility executive, Sharon Pratt Dixon wasted no time carrying out her pledge. On the day after she decisively won the mayoralty of the U.S. capital, she called for the resignation of 177 of her predecessor's top city appointees...
...average daily minimum wage of $3.55 is so inadequate that many working- class people have deserted the formal economy to try their luck as street vendors. Salinas' policies have cost at least 1.4 million jobs. Warns a longtime member of the P.R.I.: "There's a difference between being in a hurry and being precipitous...
Behind the angry words and glaring headlights many Hispanics and other residents detect a resurgence of nativism. It is no coincidence, they say, that partisans are divided roughly along racial lines. While no one suggests a formal link, the protests coincide with a surge in ethnic tensions and racially motivated crimes, both locally and nationally. "There's a potential for violence in these demonstrations," says Bill Robinson, a longtime spokesman for the San Diego police department. "What we're seeing is political conservatives protesting against people who are hungry and looking for work...
...black pastors in the U.S. have health insurance, a mere 15.7% receive pensions, and salaries are so low that nearly 40% of pastors hold second jobs. Less than one-fifth of pastors hold seminary degrees. The Rev. Calvin Butts, pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, believes lack of formal skills is critical. "You can be 'called,' but 9 times out of 10 today if you are not trained, you are of no use to us," says Butts, who holds a Ph.D. from Drew University in New Jersey...