Word: formalization
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...burned by the blast. A U.N. fact-finding mission concluded in March that the Syrian regime bore "primary responsibility" for the political circumstances leading up to Hariri's assassination, though Damascus has denied any involvement. A U.N. team arrived in Lebanon at the end of May to begin a formal investigation, but it's unclear whether the probe will finger the perpetrators...
Warner, who has the aquiline look and formal bearing that sometimes seem right out of Henry Clay's era, has made no secret of his discomfort over the fact that he would even have to cast a vote on the filibuster. "I've been here 27 years," he said. "I have the greatest respect for this institution and how it's served this country all these years." Democratic leader Harry Reid said he had heard private misgivings about the wisdom of changing Senate tradition even from Republicans who publicly pledged to support Frist on the vote...
...occasion of the day is the pending retirement of several of West Point's highest officers, the heads of History and Social Sciences, the dean of Academics, and cadets are performing one of the tasks they hate most: parading across the field, a thousand of them in their stiffest formal grays, plumes whipping in the heavy wind...
...president and Student Affairs Committee (SAC) chair to speak to the administration on behalf of the student body. Organizing concerts and large social events is under the purview of the Harvard Concert Commission and the chair of the Campus Life Committee (CLC). The vice president has no formal responsibilities besides a handful of internal housekeeping matters, like taking attendance at meetings...
Addressing those concerns, the task force recommended the University establish more formal mentoring and advising programs for female students interested in the sciences. And they proposed requiring all doctoral students in the sciences to take a training course for teaching fellows “that includes a component of gender bias...