Word: forma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although departmental courses require approval of the Faculty, such approval is usually pro forma. However, the Faculty Council has asked Forbes and James D. Yannatos, senior lecturer on Music and director of the HRO, to discuss the department's latest proposal with the council next week...
Richard E. Kronauer, McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been selected as acting master of Adams House pending the pro forma approval of the Board of Overseers, Robert J. Kiely, master of Adams, said yesterday...
However, according to one highly placed administration source, such an offer is largely pro forma. The Overseers haven't turned down a suggestion for tenure since "at least the 1930s," the source said...
Despite the pro forma disclaimers, Woodward and Bernstein weave a brisk and convincing narrative in their sequel to the bestselling All the President's Men. They do not alter the broad outlines of the now-familiar drama of Watergate. But with their spare, police-beat style, they do manage to pin down each painful, often poignant detail as the curtain dropped on a collapsing President and an embittered staff...
Critics of the regime can point to recent incidents that have discredited the "liberal" image fostered by the government since the death of Franco. Last month, for example, two leading leftist organizations, the Junta Democratica and the Plata Forma, announced plans for a mass demonstration in downtown Madrid to protest the slow pace of political reforms. The regime's response was to display thousands of security forces who took up places in the Plaza de Colón, where the rally was to be held, and sealed it off from demonstrators...