To formalise this desire for a more equality-focused approach, RAI adopted a set of guidelines on gender last month that aim, among other things, to open up more top jobs to women inside the corporation and to reflect equality through editorial output.
Baltimore was the first city to formalise residential segregation by race, but others soon followed.
It included new powers for the Federal Reserve that formalise its attempt at policies to stabilise the markets.
Mr dos Santos, for his part, has seized the chance to formalise what everyone already knew to be the real state of affairs: the presidency's total control.
The government now appears to be considering a draft law to formalise the de-facto control it has over religious affairs.Since the IMU's incursion in 1999, the authorities in Kirgizstan have considered Islamic terrorism a prime security concern.
The proposals will target smugglers, formalise search and rescue operations and, controversially, suggest quotas to share the burden of refugees.
Some of these lending operations use an auction like eBay in which the lender willing to provide the lowest interest rate gets the borrower's loan; others (like CircleLending, an American firm) are for people who already know one another but who want someone to help formalise the loan arrangement.
They say that the administration is racing in its final months to formalise in law programmes that have run solely under authorisation from the White House that bypasses Congress.
It will seek to formalise the role of unlicensed small-scale miners, giving them a special tax rate, and try to distinguish them from the gangs that extort them, and also mine gold illegally.
As The Economist went to press, Macquarie Bank of Australia, which had made an initial, indicative offer for the LSE last week, looked likely to formalise a bid for the exchange (see article).
It could also give Mr Tadic's party the chance to sever the link between Kosovo's future and Serbia's desire to join the EU.Mr Tadic is said to favour such a compromise, which would formalise the political change that became clear in the presidential poll.
