Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dozen years old, has always received its share of criticism, but last year, there appeared to be more than the usual amount. The Undergraduate Council, the first funded student government at Harvard now entering its third year, discussed a number of options, and although it has not submitted a formal proposal to the Administration, officials say they expect quite a bit of debate in the coming year...
Like many Americans, Reagan has a religious sense that lacks much formal institutional grounding, but nonetheless seems earnest and powerful. Mondale, the pious and principled son of a Methodist pastor, has a temperamental aversion to wearing his faith on his sleeve-but he apparently feels his faith deeply and knows what he believes. What is at issue, or should be, is neither the sincerity nor the righteousness of the two men's beliefs. Rather, the point is their basic difference in outlook, reflected within the electorate, over the proper role of religion in the political realm. If conducted...
...weirder than people at a formal party anywhere, except perhaps the faces of the women, which looked as if they had been worked on for days. Couples glanced furtively at other couples, flashed grins, hugged decorously, waved modestly, hailed one another not too loudly. They paid only scant attention to the animals in whose presence they chatted vigorously. The elephant looked lost in thought. It was more sophisticated than the baby elephant seen in Neiman-Marcus later in the week, over whom shoppers gooed. If I had arrived earlier at the closet lady's party, I would have seen...
...capital, largely at the urging of Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado. In discussions with Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra, Shultz inaugurated what amounts to a fight-and-talk approach to U.S.-Nicaraguan diplomacy. After years of shunning direct negotiations with the Sandinistas, Shultz agreed to open formal channels of discussion on improving relations. But the Administration made no move to abandon its pressure tactics toward Nicaragua, notably covert support for the contras and the scheduling of nearly continuous U.S. military maneuvers in neighboring Honduras and off the Central American coast. Washington still considered those measures essential for forcing...
Prudential at first refused to release detailed employment information to the Government, claiming that to do so would violate employee confidentiality. The Labor Department retaliated by threatening to bar Prudential from further Government insurance business. The company relented after being served with a court order. No formal administrative hearings were ever held, and no official conclusion of wrongdoing was ever made. Said a Labor Department official: "There was never any finding of discrimination...