Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that disclaimer had ever given way to formal endorsement by Washington and Moscow, it would have been a very good deal indeed for the U.S. The Soviet Union would have finally sanctioned the introduction of new U.S. weapons in Western Europe. In doing so, Moscow would have tacitly conceded that it had created an imbalance and that the West was entitled to redress it. The Soviets would have also abandoned their claim to compensation for the British and French nuclear forces. A freeze on Asian SS-20s would have enabled the U.S. to assure China, Japan and South Korea that...
Dovish and hawkish tendencies are clear, but the players sometimes behave atypically. For instance, only Clifford, a moderate, suggests a formal declaration of war; Schlesinger, usually a hardliner, says that the Soviets' stepped-up submarine activity is just for "theatrical purposes...
...Queen's distinctly informal role fits the summit's deliberately improvised format. Almost the only rule of Commonwealth summits is that there are no written rules and no formal votes. Instead, the leaders, who represent one quarter of the world's people, gather for a week-long discussion about matters of mutual concern. The summit's closed-door sessions are conducted on a first-name basis and, of course, in English. Actions are taken only by consensus...
...informality that loosens tongues among Commonwealth leaders sometimes serves to tie their hands. When, for example, it was suggested that the Commonwealth provide its own "umbrella of security" for its smaller members, including Grenada, many strongly opposed the move as too formal and forceful a gesture. But the body finally did agree to lend support to a new security force to be formed by the Eastern Caribbean states...
...Mozart's The Magic Flute at Glyndebourne. From the moment the curtain rose on Hockney's version of an early Italian Renaissance landscape, complete with a dragon quoted from Uccello, the audience was saturated in color: deep purples of the night sky, the green and pink of formal gardens in Sarastro's domain on the yellow Nilotic sands, blue cataracts and blazing gold art deco sunbursts...