Word: formals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Influential people are sometimes also powerful in the conventional sense. But in the organizational flow chart of American life, they are more likely to occupy some hard-to-fathom box off to the side. Dick Morris, the President's closely-attended-to political adviser, doesn't even have a formal title. And on the Supreme Court, it has been decades since the titular chief was the real power center. During the 1970s and early '80s, the years of Chief Justice Warren Burger, the court's magnetic field emanated from the direction of William Brennan, who figured out how to attract...
...understand very well why they want a formal board," said Epps...
...matter what kind of formal structure you have in place," says summa nominee Bert I. Huang '96, "there's still a good deal of judgment on the part of the department.... Primarily [the thesis grade] depends on who your readers are and what your particular approach...
...lark, I asked her to the City-Step formal as friends," Liston says...
...Formal football games sprung up again, and the Crimson faced the University of Connecticut in its first official game since 1942, winning 7-0. The band and the big drum also appeared after a long period of dormancy, and the cheerleaders were on the field again. The crowds were still at wartime levels, though, when informal play was the only option for diehard football fans...