Word: formalization
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...years Age of the world's first formal master's of business administration program. Harvard started offering its first M.B.A. courses...
...that goal sounds utopian, it nonetheless came closer to being realized last fall. Even as Kokolopori sought the government's formal designation as a protected nature reserve (a move that may come as soon as June), Tusumba was leading the charge to apply the new conservation techniques more aggressively still to a third place: the Sankuru area. So convincing was he that President Joseph Kabila allowed the nearly 12,000-sq.-mi. (31,080 sq km) region to jump the queue and earn the reserve designation first. Adding that...
Einstein once said, "It's a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." What would you say to that? -Muhammad Damanhori, Makkah, Saudi ArabiaThat reminds me of Mark Twain, "Don't let your schooling get in the way of your education." I always tell my students that they should spend their time in whatever way helps them learn. I'm perfectly happy if they cut my class because they were doing something that was a better use of their time...
...Meanwhile, curry restaurateurs are up in arms over “unfair discrimination” against Pakistani and Bangladeshi curry chefs, who often come to Britain with little formal education or English language proficiency. They complain that the new points system favors highly educated, English-speaking professionals and will reduce the number of curry chefs entering Britain, thus harming the curry industry...
...wedding until afterward. "Nobody was invited," says Abercrombie. The motivations behind the marriage remain a mystery, even to Obama. "I never probed my mother about the details. Did they decide to get married because she was already pregnant? Or did he propose to her in the traditional, formal way?" Obama wonders. "I suppose, had she not passed away, I would have asked more...