Word: formalization
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Though the College did not institute a formal quota system, grade deflation supporters had claimed victory when the number of A-range marks dropped nearly 2 percent...
Heads of state in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, and Hungary wrote in a formal appeal to the European Union that failing to digitalize is to jeopardize the “just place” of European heritage “in the future geography of knowledge...
...Mahbubani is equally forceful about U.S. abuses at its war-on-terror prison camps. He writes that Guant?namo Bay?where inmates have been held indefinitely without formal charges?has had a "profound effect" on the liberal ?lites that are America's "best friends abroad." Many Americans don't yet see the corrosive effects of this injustice, viewing Guant?namo as a necessary evil in a grim but vital war against the people who brought down the Twin Towers and beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. But I'll bet Christopher Hill gets it. Hill is the U.S. diplomat now charged...
...nationally televised Army-McCarthy hearings helped turn public opinion against McCarthy, leading to the Senate’s formal condemnation of him at the end of the year. As McCarthy’s influence waned, fears of communist infiltration lost their salience at Harvard and across the country...
Already a master at creating hilarious stories about alienated weirdos, most famously in Ghost World, Clowes has more recently been exploring the formal properties of graphical storytelling. Inspired by the overlapping style of director Robert Altman, Ice Haven weaves more than 30 short strips into one cohesive portrait of a strange suburban town shaken by the disappearance of an odd little boy. Bruisingly satiric and brilliantly designed, Ice Haven will have you gleefully reading it two or three times in a row to unlock its complex interconnections...