Word: formals
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Barely visible in the distance is the 555-ft.-high Washington Monument, looking like a gray toothpick far out on the horizon. But right down below, amid miles of suburban shopping malls and carpet outlets and car dealerships, is a place that's becoming as important as the formal capital of the U.S., a place that's doing something traditional Washington has never done before: generating billions in private wealth...
...move further until they knew what they would have to give up on Jerusalem. Clinton presented a compromise, which Barak approved if Arafat accepted: Israel would have sovereignty over West Jerusalem and much of East Jerusalem, but the Palestinians would run municipal services in East Jerusalem and have formal sovereignty over some of its neighborhoods. The Palestinians would also control Muslim holy sites...
...contrast, presidential candidate Texas Gov. George W. Bush was probably cursing the jet crash--not because of its tragic depth but because it had stolen his media-driven spotlight. Although news leaks and leads had been circulating since the Saturday beforehand, that Tuesday was also the day that Bush formally announced former Secretary of Defense Richard B. Cheney as his Republican running mate. Brian Williams, the anchor for MSNBC's coverage of the Concorde crash, practically apologized to Bush when the network returned to their coverage of the crash rather than air the remainder of Bush's formal announcement...
According to sources close to the Nieman Foundation, Rudenstine did not convene a formal search committee to assist him in the Nieman search, but consulted with a more loosely constructed group of faculty that did not interview the candidates...
...grows in Okinawa, too: Amid the meetings, formal banquets and cultural shows (in this case, a demonstration of karate, which originated on Okinawa), every major summit has some moments of inexplicable silliness. This summit's contribution to the genre: the leaders "planting a tree" by each throwing a shovel of dirt on a pine tree that was already planted, and dutifully examining with feigned interest a new high-tech voting machine that Japan's Prime Minister Mori was quite proud...