Word: informality
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While the suspension may have been justified, the only additional disciplinary measure merited by the case was to inform Christie of his school’s rules, since he has not shown any pattern of disobeying them once he understands them. In fact, sending Christie to reform school will likely achieve precisely the opposite effect desired, actually hindering his education by forcing him to miss 45 days of regular class instruction. Although violations of zero-tolerance policies should certainly be punished, the precise nature of the punishments applied needs to be discretionary to account for students’ intentions, personal...
...worker's rights. They charge that Calderón targeted the electricity union for backing his political adversaries and protesting against his free-market policies, and accuse him of seeking only unions that are weak and loyal to the government. The deployment of thousands of riot police to inform his writ underscored such criticism. "The police and military assault on the electricity workers is a serious setback in the precarious democratic life of our country," wrote columnist Luis Hernández Navarro in the daily La Jornada. "It establishes a nefarious precedent, taking us back to the darkest eras...
...more depth to further ensure that they are legitimate. The results of the AIDS-vaccine trial did not benefit from either leg of this process. The investigators chose instead to announce the results in a press conference in Thailand, at the request of the Thai government, which wanted to inform its citizens of the positive findings as soon as possible. A U.S. press conference, including the U.S. Army researchers and Fauci, was held several hours later, with a promise to follow up with more detailed data in a presentation at the annual AIDS Vaccine Conference in Paris...
...sounds, because they haven't recognized either the social utility of telling folks what they want to hear or the potential for career advancement--not to mention bank-robbing--in bending the facts. So Mark's colleagues at the film studio where he's a writer feel obliged to inform him that he's about to be fired. And when he finally snags a date with his adored co-worker Anna (Jennifer Garner), she greets him by saying, "Hi. You're early. I was just masturbating...
...government leaders who were deemed to be moving too slowly on reforms. (Their names were not released.) Chief among the government's failings has been its inability to prosecute the government officials who are believed to have orchestrated the violence. In the letters, Carson wrote, "I am writing to inform you that your future relationship with the United States is linked to your support for urgent implementation of the reform agenda as well as opposition to the use of violence...