Word: formalization
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Still, the Bhutanese remain uncomfortable with the changes under way and especially with one basic political act: mudslinging. Bhutan is a fiercely traditional place, polite and formal. Slow vehicles pull over to let faster cars go by. Etiquette dictates that you wear formal clothes in the presence of the national flag. The vast majority of the nation's 700,000 people subscribe to ex-King Jigme Singye's emphasis on something he calls gross national happiness, which measures not just wealth but how content, healthy and well educated people are, as well as the state of the environment and strength...
...furtherance of this transition that the reform treaty is all about. Hence the notorious "passerelle" clauses, which enable matters now within the competence of individual member states to become an E.U. competence, and matters that now require unanimity to be decided by majority voting, without the current requirement of formal treaty amendment or the approval of national parliaments...
...ideas is great not only for me as a writer but for the actors too. And you can plagiarize legally. I personalized the script for my own taste.” Green’s personal touch is evident through his encouragement of improvisation and abandonment of the formal script. He readily welcomes “mistakes.” “I like it when people mess up their lines” he said. These surprising elements lend an individual flavor to a movie which is centered on the much-trodden themes of relationships, love, and loss...
...only houses of prayer in a country where the strict Wahhabi version of Sunni Islam dominates. But Archbishop Paul-Mounged El-Hachem, the papal envoy to the smaller countries on the Arabian peninsula, such as Kuwait and Qatar, has confirmed that talks are under way to establish formal diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Saudi Arabia, and to eventually allow for Catholic churches to be built there. Pope Benedict XVI is believed to have personally appealed to King Abdullah on the topic during the Saudi monarch's first ever visit to the Vatican last November...
...medicine, there’s medical malpractice,” Graham T. Allison Jr. ’62 said.“In law, you can be disbarred. Well, how about in our business?” The answer, Allison said, is that there is no formal way of holding intellectuals responsible for their ideas, no matter how badly they get them wrong. Politicians and presidential candidates who supported the Iraq War have been held publicly accountable for their votes, but academics advocates of the war have not faced the same kind of scrutiny, said Allison, the director...