Word: protocolic
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...would seem very difficult for the Corporation to ignore the substance of the professors' grievances. Universities are governed by a thin line of protocol, of academic due process and academic freedom. Within this framework, there is an important question as to the individual domain of administrators; questions of the bounds to which a dean, say, is restricted when dealing with different sectors of the University. It seems clear that Kilbridge has flaunted the unwritten limitations of a dean's powers. Perhaps Pusey gave him carte blanche to "clean up" the GSD; if so, then Kilbridge accepted the mandate and applied...
Despite the fact that the Shah strictly followed the rules of protocol laid down at the 1815 Congress of Vienna, some guests were miffed. When Kai-Ewe von Hassel, president of West Germany's Bundestag, was sent to represent (Federal President Gustav Heinemann, protocol decreed that he be shifted to a hotel and his tent assigned to the higher-ranking Princess Bilgis of Afghanistan. Von Hassel was not happy...
...might rejoice that the swimming pool has become so popular, if it did not mean that the pool is more crowded than it has ever been. This unpleasantness might be more tolerable if all swimmers adopted the protocol that 95 per cent of them customarily follow. (Except after 5:30 p.m., when the rule of the jungle alone applies. Swim at your own risk...
...Protocol for the Use of the Swimming Pool...
Periodically, the Emperor and Empress receive their five surviving children (two daughters are dead) and ten grandchildren. Rigid court protocol requires that the receptions be held separately. The two sons and daughter of Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko are royal. The seven children who belong to the Emperor's three daughters cannot be received at the same time because they are considered commoners; their mothers married commoners and thereby lost royal status...