Word: formalization
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...stone to future success for many Law School graduates, including President Barack Obama. The student-run Law Review is given top billing among the nation’s legal journals, attracting unsolicited submissions in many fields of legal scholarship from professors across the country. The Law Review has no formal ties to Harvard University and, with a circulation of 4000, maintains financial independence. Huey did not specify how the Law Review’s financial footing would be affected by the current economic downturn or what steps she would take to ensure the journal’s financial well-being...
...that the four new bishops of the Society of St. Pius X had incurred an automatic excommunication for being consecrated by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre against the will of Pope John Paul II. In response to their numerous requests for the removal of their excommunication, Pope Benedict XVI issued a formal retraction of that decree last month. The very point of the Pope’s action has been ignored...
...Only two of its 44 key technologies are mature enough to generate reliable cost estimates, according to the Government Accountability Office. The Army has so far spent $18 billion trying to get the FCS to work and plans on spending $21 billion more before it gets a formal green light for production in 2013, when key performance tests still will not have been done. And the FCS's vaunted mobility has already been scrapped; the Army has abandoned plans to transport all those vehicles to the battlefield aboard C-130 cargo planes because they are too heavy. Costs...
...more rapid approval of formal investigation orders and commission permission slips, Schapiro is now allowing SEC enforcers to more easily move from informal investigations to securing subpoenas for witness testimony and documents by abolishing the agency's onerous "pre-approval" process. The process, which began at the beginning of all serious investigations, required all five SEC commissioners to be present and "pre-approve" any major investigation. The problem: it often took weeks before all the commissioners could come together in one room...
...From the regrettable “Barbie Girl” played at the Freshman Formal to the questionable playlist at “Sweet and Nasty,” Harvard’s party scene has seen more than its share of musical faux pas. The standard party features Lil Wayne, Ludacris, or even—heaven forbid—a Kelly Clarkson single. Almost no DJ, however, seems to play the kind of music that can actually get people’s feet moving—electronic dance music...