Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While about 45 leading political experts. journalism, and government officials will actually participate in the meeting's three scheduled sessions more than 500 prominent representatives of the different fields have been invited to each of two formal dinners connected with the conference...
Joan Clark is a petite woman who has said she is content with being a 19th century wife to a workaholic husband. When they attend formal dinners, Clark looks uncomfortable in his black tie and slightly dazzled by the famous personalities eager to engage him in small talk. He speaks slowly and has a deliberate gait, and somehow seems out of place in fast-talking Washington. His features often convey puzzled concentration, and he likes to foster the idea that he yearns to return to raise Herefords and barley on his 888-acre ranch in San Luis Obispo County, Calif...
...Putnam County, Fla.; the charges involved criminal violations of the state's Uniform Land Sales Practices Law by a Florida real estate firm Jaffe owned. Faced with the loss of $137,000 it had posted in bail, the Accredited Surety & Casualty Co. decided not to wait for a formal extradition request and instead sent Timm Johnsen and Daniel Kear to Toronto to bring Jaffe back. Like most modern-day bounty hunters, Johnsen and Kear figured they would earn 10% of the bond, in this case $13,700, plus expenses and a bonus...
...dishes and sleeping under a tent Like everyone else. Said Caroline, who was a real scout until age 15: "It was like a bout of childhood, like going back to being twelve years old again." It could not last, of course. This week she will be back in formal evening dress at her brother Prince Albert's side as he presides over Monaco's annual Red Cross ball...
...repels and disorients it when approached." The more modest truth, for those with unwiggled needles, is that Penck's imagery is often so obscure that he seems to feel no special responsibility to the system he deploys. A lot of the paintings are mumbo jumbo, and their formal attributes can be remarkably trite-cliché figure-ground reversals, careless scrawly drawing...