Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...objectives that address the major political and military concerns in the area. Among them: withdrawal of all foreign military advisers and bases; a scaling down of national armed forces; a commitment to democratic pluralism. So far, however, the members have failed to translate the 20 objectives into formal treaty language...
...they were chosen with the help of "delegate committees," groups set up with money mostly from labor political action committees (PACS). Mondale has disbanded these ill-advised committees and even promised to give the money back, but Hart plans to hammer away at the issue. He has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission, and he keeps goading Mondale to return the money (which Mondale claims is about $300,000 but the Hart camp hints is at least twice as much). So far, both voters and the press have largely dismissed the delegate-committee squabble as little more...
Freeman says that the two already sensed there was ample evidence in favor of unions even before the formal research began. "We knew that there was something sitting there and things came out more or less consistent with our earlier data," he says...
...Republic and one overwhelmingly Catholic party in the North had sought fresh alternatives that might lead to Irish unity. The final result of their deliberations, a 42-page, 14,000-word report, is a searching investigation into the island's social, cultural, economic and political relationships. After 41 formal sessions, 56 meetings of party leaders and more than 300 submissions from interested outsiders, the forum condemned the "failed British solutions" to bring stability to Northern Ireland...
Aging females would not have to dread the type of social isolation expressed by a middle-aged woman in a 1970s feminist anthology, who wrote that although men of varying ages privately found her attractive, they never asked her out on formal dates because, by her guess, she could not provide them with the social prestige offered by a 20-year...