Word: forma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote. In order to assume office, he had to conclude an agreement with the Christian Democrats and the Nationals that later certainly contributed to his downfall. In Chile the Congress--much like the Electoral College in this country--must ratify the popular mandate. The vote is normally pro forma, but the opposition parties in 1970 were making noises about voting against Allende and then combining forces in a new election. To forestall that possibility, Allende was forced to conclude an agreement with the opposition that pledged, among other things, to leave the armed forces alone...
Wills alone gained an instant obscurity from the episode. He received a pro forma letter of commendation and a $5-a-week raise. He was also sufficiently unnerved by the event that he quit his job. Now he is back on the beat again in another Washington building, making $85 a week...
...resignation demands, sent under the name of Nixon's chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, were blunt: "The President has requested that you forward to him an indication of your personal plans or preferences regarding your possible service in the Nixon Administration. This should be accompanied by your pro forma letter of resignation to become effective at the pleasure of the President." The purpose, declared White House Special Counsel Harry Dent, is "to cut back and sharpen up. There's going to be a lot of change. The President is the quarterback...
...French, they seem content for the moment to be the acquiescent, if slightly reluctant hosts for this week's meetings. It is unlikely that they will raise, even in a pro forma way, their earlier demand for a political EEC secretariat with headquarters in Paris. In his letter of invitation to heads of government, Pompidou struck the theme of his own attitude toward the EEC at the moment: "Consolidation." As one French diplomat put it, "With the new members coming in, we will have a period of digestion of what we have before us rather than an ordering...
...reasons of its own, Peking also reacted with restraint to the news that Hanoi and Haiphong had been bombed. The North Vietnamese practically wrung a measured, pro forma statement out of Premier Chou Enlai, who noted simply that "escalation failed in the past and will continue to fail" because it makes "the entire Vietnamese people unite ever more closely in their fight." The Chinese want nothing to interfere with the opening of relations with the U.S. A few days later, Chou was all graciousness as he received the Senate's leaders, Democrat Mike Mansfield and Republican Hugh Scott...