Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...announced the next day that it hoped to buy Amax, Reed's options appreciated to a net value of $427,000. But Reed had spoken with his father, an Amax director, minutes before he purchased the options. The Securities and Exchange Commission began a probe that ended in formal accusations against Reed of illegal "insider trading," charging that he had been tipped off in advance about the impending purchase...
...point of plain fact, a teacher of literature may do several quite different things, especially these days when universities house their own schools of thought on the subject. Some teach the formal aspects of literature, some the sociology of literature, some the politics. There are those who teach because literature tells them what it means to be human; others who hold that literature means whatever one wishes it to mean; still others who say it means nothing at all. Defenders of each fort sometimes make the newspapers, where, in argument with one another, they sound like crazed religious warriors...
...Hampshire, four members of a separate branch of the Sisters of Mercy are engaged in a struggle with Bishop Odore Gendron of Manchester; in January 1982, without any formal charges, he had dismissed them as teachers at a parochial school in Hampton. Rather than obediently bowing out, the sisters sued the bishop in a civil court for reinstatement, arguing that their contracts guaranteed an explanation and a hearing. The New Hampshire Supreme Court last December rejected the bishop's contention that secular judges had no business ruling on a purely ecclesiastical dispute, declaring that it was a civil matter with...
...that calligraphy, the art of formal handwriting, has become a popular hobby, enthusiasts are sharpening their pens to improve the atrocious scrawling of the rest of us. It will be a mighty task. In America, writing is the most neglected of the three...
Though such a move might well bolster third world unity, for any group to declare formal support for the PLO would be misguided. Despite the show put on by PLO leader Yassir Arafat for Western journalists last summer, the PLO is a violent terrorist organization, not a political representative of the Palestinian people...