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This is my friend's second marriage, but at her fiance's insistence, she is once again having a full-blown formal affair--including all the gift registries.
The WP reports inside that last week the U.S. military's Atlantic Command held a formal ceremony where it was renamed the Joint Forces Command.
17Vehicle miles of travel is published by the Federal Highway Administration, as reported by state highway agencies, and is based on formal guidance provided by the Administration.
But the newspaper reported that British diplomats were seeking a formal, categorical denial of the allegation by Clarke if the investiture ceremony was to go ahead at the British High Commission in Colombo Wednesday.
Al Qaeda also established cooperative but less formal relationships with other extremist groups from these same countries; from the African states of Chad, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Uganda; and from the Southeast Asian states of Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia.