Word: formalizing
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Almost all laws have loopholes, and law defined by the Supreme Court is no exception. Although it is widely believed that the court prohibited public school prayer in 1962, the court in fact merely forbade teachers to organize formal prayer sessions. The door was left open, at least a crack, to prayer that was purely voluntary...
...proposal broadens Harvard's official definition of harassment and establishes a series of formal and informal procedures for handling complaints. In addition it proposes appointing a special assistant to the Dean of the Faculty to handle complaints...
Metzenbaum remained skeptical of Meese's insistence that the loans had nothing to do with McKean's selection on July 31, 1981, to become a member of the Postal Service board of governors. McKean had not been on a formal list of candidates for the part-time position when Meese, Deaver, Chief of Staff James Baker and Personnel Director E. Pendleton James met to recommend board members. Deaver suggested McKean, Meese concurred, and McKean got the job, which pays $10,000 a year. Metzenbaum asked why Meese had not told Baker and James, as well as the President...
...Ardeshir San'ati, a former full colonel and key medical officer in the Army, who recently fled to the U.S., "The Islamic Guards see Iran as their personal fiefdom and treat all others, especially the armed forces, as their serfs." Since a system of Islamic justice superseded a formal judiciary, moreover, litigants have taken to playing off one capricious clerical judge against another, while powerbrokers have simply taken the law into their own hands. After colliding in a scramble to seize private land, two government officials ended up drawing guns on each other in a courtroom last August. Having...
First movement: Allegro. New York City, Feb. 27, 1984. Sergiu Celibidache makes his way across the stage of Carnegie Hall to a welcoming roar from the audience. He is the very image of a maestro out of Central European casting: formal evening clothes and a cascade of long white hair. After more than 30 years spent in the shadows of a reputation as the least heard of the great European conductors, he is finally making his American debut, not with a major orchestra, but with a student ensemble from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia...