Word: formals
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There are those who disdain such extravagance and the formality that goes with it. "Informal" dress at meals means jacket and tie; "formal" signals a tuxedo, or at least a dark business suit. At these prices, the QE2 tends to attract a certain class of traveler--the kind who, in an earlier era, coined the word posh (port out, starboard home), the preferred, indeed socially obligatory, cabin location for the well-heeled sailing out of London. But for the men and women who choose to sail the QE2, it just wouldn't be the same without that touch of class...
...Rudenstine's own searches for deans are any indication, the presidential search will also involve months of brainstorming, hundreds of phone calls to experts and both formal and informal consultations with authorities in higher education...
...package was prepared for formal presentation in November 1998, Texas' chief of food and drug safety under Archer was worried. The chief, Dennis Baker, called the softer proposals "quite disturbing" in comments e-mailed to Archer. "The rules as currently written," he wrote, "would only serve to facilitate marketing of ephedrine products at the expense of public health." By the time regulations were approved in May 1999, Archer decided to take no position on dosage limits. Such limits would imply that ephedrine products were safe at certain levels. But he did allow the industry to carry a label that warned...
...This is the end of the road for my Expos buddies and the people I met in Hurlbut hallways, handing me my first beer. The members of my sophomore tutorial are graduating; so are my entryway roomies, the people with whom I went to dinner before the First-year Formal and my ex-girlfriends from life in the Yard...
...Knight's eruptions have been going on for years, but this week, with hilarious solemnity, Indiana University completed a formal investigation of the coach's "pattern of inappropriate behavior." The university might have fired Knight outright, as Dwight Eisenhower and George C. Marshall might have fired Patton. The university might have considered intermediate steps - prefrontal lobotomy, say. Instead, Indiana decided to fine Knight $30,000, suspend him for three games next season, and give him one no-kidding-this-time "last chance" to behave himself. If Knight had been losing basketball games, of course, he would have been...