Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Formal investigation into charges of sexual harassment prompted the resignation of a University of Michigan professor last week...
...signs last week were mixed. Gemayel telephoned Syrian President Assad and invited him to send a delegate to the conference; it was the first formal contact between the two countries since last spring, when Gemayel earned Assad's enmity by signing a troop withdrawal accord with Israel. On the other hand, the Progressive Socialist Party, led by Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt, issued a fresh set of conditions for the talks, including a complete halt to cease-fire violations and a lifting of the nightly curfew in Beirut. Jumblatt himself hinted that the talks might break up over a dispute...
...Formal learning continued at the University of Chicago, where Roth earned a master's degree in literature. Quarterlies published his first stories. One of them, The Contest for Aaron Gold, was selected for the 1956 Martha Foley collection of Best American Short Stories. By this time, he was a 22-year-old PFC churning out press releases for the U.S. Army. In off-hours, he used his Government-issue typewriter to compose the tales that would eventually merge in Goodbye, Columbus...
While the Harvard administrators made no formal commitment to the infant project. McCaslin notes. "We do have Derek Bok on the record stating that the University should cooperate with the schools...
...time invasion went to press, the administration had a strong arsenal of reasons under its belt: the danger to American citizens and the formal request for aid. When the forces arrived in Grenada, and turned up several hundred Cubans and 30 Soviet military advisors, it was dubbed a lucky break and officials declared that the size of the Cuban presence, earlier referred to in an offhand manner, came as surprise. One can only remember, with a certain strong sense of embarrassment, the statement by the Russians that they were "invited in" to Afghanistan and Poland...