Word: formalization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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After five years at my dining room table, I enrolled at a formal high school. Certainly, I arrived deficient in some areas of knowledge, just as I was over-familiar with others, but I soon learned that my years of homeschooling, loosely structured and largely self-directed study had taught me early on the most important lesson of my academic career: that even the most skilled teacher is nothing without an able learner, and, moreover, that actively learning is miles away from passively "being taught...
...possible to make sure its graduating seniors can apply for H-B1s. Because the H-1B visas are provided only to skilled workers who can prove they have “fulfilled degree requirements,” it is impossible to apply for it until seniors have a received formal passing record—which, last year, did not happen until after the H-B1 cap was reached...
...anti-immigrant movements are flourishing in places like Belgium, Britain, Germany and Italy. Last month, a group of ultranationalist M.E.P.s finally gathered enough members to create a formal caucus, giving them more political clout and making them eligible for E.U. funding. So immigration poses a two-part challenge for Europe: how to bring in the people it needs and how to do so without feeding the hysteria...
...extra-long runway. The photographers at the head of the show are so crowded that their faces are entirely hidden behind a wall of camera lenses. We have been looking forward to seeing BCBG, which has probably outfitted every Harvard girl for at least one homecoming, prom, or formal. This was a brand we knew and loved. We expect good things. Everything is here: the booming Euro music, the dramatic lighting, the electric atmosphere. What’s missing are the chic and contemporary BCBG fashions we had expected. It seems the models are barely here either.Wrapped in shapeless sheets...
...lawyers say Chen's final formal appeal was turned down in December and since then they have had less and less opportunity to visit him, as there are no legal avenues left to pursue. Li told me that he last saw Chen on Jan. 15. He had lost weight, was plagued by serious stomach problems and was being denied privileges given to other prisoners such as being able to buy food items such as instant noodles. "It is very hard for him," Li said with a sigh. "Can you imagine what it's like to be in prison...