Word: formalization
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...Nidal was named the chief P.L.O. representative in Iraq. Over the next two years he started to set up his own organization, and by September 1973 it had begun to emerge as a proxy terrorist force for the Iraqis. A formal break with Arafat's Fatah organization took place in 1974, and shortly thereafter his gunmen failed in a bid to murder Arafat himself. In reply, the P.L.O. sentenced Abu Nidal to death...
...Vatican first contacted Curran in 1979, sending a 16-page list of the "principal errors and ambiguities" in his writings. After several exchanges, Ratzinger last year wrote Curran that he must recant (which he refuses to do) or no longer be deemed a teacher of Catholic theology. A formal Vatican statement to that effect would end Curran's post at the university, where theologians work under church mandate because graduate religion degrees are granted under a papal charter...
...carefully combed hair was nervous as he approached the border checkpoint. Officially, his exit visa was for six months' study in Germany, but he knew that he would not return. His leather suitcase was packed with six shirts, half a dozen butterfly ties, several pairs of socks and a formal cutaway suit. Hidden in his impeccably polished shoes, however, were hundreds of American dollars. In post-revolutionary Russia, he feared being imprisoned or shot for currency smuggling. But it was too late to worry about that. Confidence is the first rule, he thought to himself, reaching for his passport. Like...
...triumphal return. Not since those earlier expatriates Composer Igor Stravinsky and Choreographer George Balanchine visited in 1962 has the Soviet Union been so galvanized by a glimpse of a prodigal son. Keenly anticipated for weeks by Soviet music lovers, Horowitz's tour featured just two formal concerts, in Moscow a week ago and in Leningrad Sunday, before continuing to Hamburg, Berlin and London. The first recital provoked an unprecedented near riot. As the security gates in front of the Moscow Conservatory swung open to admit the pianist's chauffeured Chaika, hundreds of young people burst through the police lines...
...lack of a formal labor contract at USX may be one reason why corporate buccaneers, sensing the potential for wage cuts and an eventual increase in corporate earnings, soon began to sniff around. Another attraction for raiders is a USX pension fund with an estimated $2.5 billion in excess assets. Last month the company's stock began moving into some well-known hands. Among the buyers: Robert Holmes à Court, an Australian investor; T. Boone Pickens, the Texas oilman-raider; Irwin Jacobs, the Minneapolis entrepreneur and speculator. Pickens reportedly cashed in his chips two weeks ago for a big profit...