Word: protocolic
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With the power to make appointments comes the blame when many have gone unmade. The most visible unfilled post, chief of protocol, has already brought public embarrassment. While the Clintons have dithered over whether the job should go to a man or a woman, someone with Washington diplomatic experience or a Little Rock loyalist, events that should have garnered goodwill for the pair have sparked only resentment and enmity. The most disastrous incident occurred at the most important affair so far, a White House reception in honor of the opening of the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Scheduled to be there...
...right to speak, and his audience has the right to hear him. But the expression of dissent at Commencement is neither unprecedented nor undesirable. It's part of the University experience--an experience that, for most of us, has much more to do with opinion and debate than with protocol and decorum...
Abelardo Valdez, former U.S. Ambassador and Chief Protocol in the Carter administration, said that prior to the free trade agreement proposal, "The see of poverty, the underdevelopment [in Mexico] was so great and the resources to address those issues were grossly inadequate to deal with those issues...
...impossible to monitor data traffic if you can't reach the cable or if the network will crash you break the cable. As it is, any enterprising reporter for The Crimson with a $3000 protocol-analyzer could read everything going in or out of anyone's networked computer...
...meeting late Friday evening, the state and federal agencies involved in the case hammered out a protocol to govern the inquiry. The first priority was to stabilize the pillars that hold up the Vista Hotel on the Trade Center plaza and which were supported in turn by the garage floors that were ripped away in the blast. Before investigators can safely enter the blast site, workers must buttress the dangerous sagging remnants of the garage and lay a web of tubular steel beams across the crater left by the bomb. It may be days before investigators can begin to sift...