Evelyn Wood, a Salt Lake City schoolteacher, formalized the practice in the late nineteen-fifties.
But it was in 1987 that Washington really formalized the practice, with a law instructing the Secretary of Defense and the U.S. Attorney General to notify local law enforcement agencies each year about what surplus gear was available.
The law formalizes the practice of diverting children into informal foster care situations where their caregivers won't be eligible for foster care payments and the children's welfare won't be monitored by the court, said Angie Schwartz, policy program director for the Alliance for Children's Rights, a California-based legal advocacy group.
This policy formalized the practice of institutionally based research ethics review, a form of ethics peer review that has – for better or worse – become the norm throughout the world.
It included an extensive cantina (or cellar) in which the practice of aging wines was advanced, and it was here that wines made with the Nebbiolo grape were aged to their potential for the first time, formalizing the practices and knowledge that would give birth to the prized wines of Barolo and Barbaresco.
Small firms seem to be more effective in utilizing product design and manufacturing involvement while large firms standardize and formalize the product development practices.
The British designer Tom Dixon, whose Ikea collection launches next fall, sought to upend the staid conventions of upholstery by constructing a sofa with an aluminum frame ("taken a bit from the car industry," Dixon told me) that can be customized with various modular parts, and thus formalizes the informal practice of "hacking" Ikea furniture.
While law enforcement officers around the country are regularly allowed to fly with their weapons as long as they get approval from the cockpit crew, the California program is an effort to formalize that practice and, with the extra training, to enhance it, said the Highway Patrol commissioner, D. O. Helmick.
A law passed by Congress in 1990 created T.P.S., which was intended to formalize the long-standing U.S. practice of granting legal protection to refugees of natural disasters and social unrest.
