Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member Salvadoran army would soon be unable to defend the country against the guerrillas, whose unity is sometimes debatable but whose destructiveness is beyond dispute (see box). The Senate gave tentative approval to the aid, but, chiefly through the efforts of Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, a promised formal vote on the funds was delayed until this week in order to keep attention focused on the Administration's Central American policies...
...50th anniversary of it college system, Yale is not resting on its residential laurels. A report released this year by their faculty council addresses the issue of improving residential college life. The report recommends an increase in the number of formal courses offered at the colleges, says Frank W.K. Kirk, master of Trumball College. Currently each college offers about six courses a year. "Teaching on the college level is a nice way to integrate the social and academic functions of the college, it also lends a greater sense of identify to each of the colleges," Kirk says, adding that...
Normally the nomination of an ambassador follows a dignified routine designed to attract no attention. Once a name is whispered to American officials, the State Department drafts a biography, evaluates the candidate's credentials and then makes a formal recommendation to the President. If the nominee is acceptable, the U.S. sends an official agreement and the appointment is made public. With some exceptions, consent comes without a hitch. But Astorga's nomination was far from typical and had already attracted too much public attention to be reviewed behind closed doors. One Administration spokesman put it mildly...
...plants, or colonies, or whatever they are, ramify from narrow stems; sometimes they reverse the "normal" look of sculpture-well planted, firmly accommodating itself to its own weight-and seem to flourish in a zone of reduced gravity, where things float and spread. Always they are airy, open. In formal terms, their ancestry is constructivism, and they are part of the extended family whose American patriarch was David Smith, a fact that Graves acknowledges in giving some of her works names like Zaga, in homage to a suite of sculptures Smith titled...
...after the Inauguration, Haig was struck once again by the behavior of the White House staff, particularly during the very first formal meeting of the Cabinet...