Word: formally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even if blacks actually came into formal political power under Kissinger's proposal, the plan would do much to ensure that they did not control the country's economic life. It guarantees "compensation" for Rhodesian whites, creating a fund that according to the Manchester Guardian would total between $1.5 and $2 billion. Details have not been released, but the plan could result in payments to whites who remain in Rhodesia as well as those who emigrate. The fund could also make loans to blacks who wanted to buy businesses--but this would leave them in debt to an institution funded...
...official reception anywhere. The powdered expressions of "Court Attendants in Procession" don't mask their humanity and individual identity. The thoughts of each belong to the observer out of time, not only the Chinese of their own epoch. Most intimate of all, surprisingly, is another ritual, a formal "Procession to the Towers." In this panoply of costume, only faces speak...
...pound had been battered by its third serious selling wave in less than a year, and sank to a record low of $1.63 as measured against the U.S. dollar. The decline was climaxed by a precipitous loss of more than 40 in a single trading session-which, apart from formal devaluations, was the greatest drop in one day since sterling was floated in 1972. By week's end, after the government had announced that it would prop up the pound by asking the International Monetary Fund for a standby loan of $3.9 billion, sterling had recovered some...
...taught a section of the course last year and said that students needed to be taught the course material in a formal order, as the course is taught...
...always seems to be more comfortable with group scenes and visual humor. No one in Cousin, Cousine is witty--Tacchella wouldn't allow a character that freedom. He prefers to draw back and let us laugh at people and situations--a man with his pants down at a formal dinner, a woman about to slit her wrists who stops to fix her makeup instead, or a drunk at a wedding who obliges propriety by carefully filling his wine glass and then takes a swig out of the bottle anyway. As funny as Tacchella makes some of these scenes, we wind...