Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the center will not set a formal agenda or select a staff until later this fall, officials at the Ed School said the institute has five different tasks to fulfill, according to the federal government contract...
...each other out. Although Taiwan, as ever, remains a problem, other, less volatile matters are now seen as the basis for building better relations. A decade ago, President Nixon's grandly symbolic visit to China presaged a new era. In 1979, under President Carter, the two countries established formal diplomatic ties. Shortly afterward, in January of 1980, Defense Secretary Harold Brown went to China with word that the U.S. was willing to export to Peking items of high technology, though not weapons. The Chinese were eager to buy and later presented the U.S. with a secret shopping list...
...suggesting that Seagram's could reap larger profits in wine. The study mentioned three potential acquisitions, one of which was the Wine Spectrum. When Seagram's began hearing industry talk that the Wine Spectrum might be available, it approached Coca-Cola to express its interest. After the formal offer was made on Sept. 19, the deal was swiftly wrapped up at New York City's Regency Hotel. The acquisition of the Wine Spectrum instantly propels Seagram's into the No. 2 position in domestic wine, with 11.2% of the market...
Motherwell has never used collage as a means of surrealist shock treatment. His work sits squarely in the formal tradition of early Braque, not in the poetic irrationality of Ernst. But its play between form and meaning is no accident. The "found" element in Unglueckliche Liebe (Unhappy Love), 1974, is a fragment of sheet music whose words apostrophize the miseries of passion: "Begone, begone, ye children of Melancholy!" But set on its dark ground, with a rectangle of slaty blue and a marvelous, soaring shape of white paper-Mallarme's swan, making a personal appearance-its stilted sentiment turns...
...Lady Dolores, the antiadultery crusader of The Love Department (1966). Trevor's characters are not underdogs in any social or political sense. They can be obtuse, thoughtless, silly and casually cruel. His style, fully displayed in this complete collection of his short stories and a new novel, is formal and astringent, though never arch...