Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buying, preparing and serving the food, but the Reagans chose the menu. In another untraditional move, they decided to treat their guests to a "typically American" meal: turkey and all the trimmings. White House advance teams held three full-scale tasting sessions, sending snapshots of the food and formal place settings back to Nancy Reagan for approval...
...formal fantasy." Haviaras says, adding. "I don't know if it will recapitulate your average American male fantasy, but the idea surrounding her has promoted a tremendous flow of creative energy and I don't want to interrupt or try to understand it." Haviaras says he thinks it will be very good, and he may attempt to publish it someday...
Johnson explained that while the deparment has no formal policy defining what constitutes racist action, his officers are expected to act "professionally" at all times. In an instance last November, one of three which recently have provoked charges of racism, Harvard police stopped a Black student on the street, treated him roughly and neglected to apologize after the student was cleared of suspicion...
...that instance the officers acted unprofessionally, and I reprimanded them for it and sent a formal letter of apology to the student involved." Johnson said...
...advice columnists, crossword puzzles and a sports page, the Journal is almost certainly the only U.S. newspaper that can make or lose fortunes for the people it writes about. A perverse indication of the paper's power came last month, when the Securities and Exchange Commission opened a formal investigation into leaks to stock traders about what items were to appear in its "Heard on the Street" column. The Journal is far from complete: editors can dis miss political developments in a paragraph, and the paper's three daily Page One stories, while almost invariably literate...