Word: forma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doubtless making a pro forma reference to the old dream of reunifying China under Nationalist rule. But his observation applied equally to a more realistic mission that has been largely attained: transforming Taiwan from an impoverished paddyland backwater into a prosperous modern society. Today the island nation is a midsize economic powerhouse that produces the world's eleventh largest volume of exports...
...death" proclaimed by Libya's Muammar Gaddafi as marking his nation's territorial waters in the Gulf of Sidra. Once again, a senior U.S. Navy official insisted that "it is not provocative to assert internationally accepted rights" at sea. And once again no one took seriously the pro forma U.S. assertions that the naval exercises were routine. "Tommyrot!" scoffed a Pentagon source. "Of course we're aching for a go at Gaddafi." Agreed a senior White House aide: "If he sticks his head up, we'll clobber him. We're looking for an excuse...
Republican Senator Paula Hawkins of Florida was scheduled to make pro forma welcoming comments at the National Conference on Sexual Victimization of Children last week. But the surprising and gripping personal tale she told made her the center of attention. "When I was five years old, I was abused by a neighbor, a man around the corner," she recounted to her 1,300 listeners. "I told my mother. Fortunately, she believed me . . . We went to court, and I was one of the witnesses. But the man was let go. The judge decided that children had to be lying...
...negotiations. He is permitted a 21-day extension, but he probably will not need it. Said Foreign Ministry Shamir Spokesman Avi Pazner: "He's got it practically wrapped up. The other partners won't make new demands." First, however, the Prime Minister-designate must make a pro forma effort to put together a government of national unity with the opposition Labor Party, a condition that some members of his coalition stipulated as the price of their support to give the government more authority to deal with Israel's pressing foreign and economic problems. Given its ideological differences...
...whom have undergraduate law degrees. They make up an extensive, inexpensive and nearly invisible legal-services network, dealing with ordinary tax, patent, administrative and real estate transactions. Nor do lawyers handle fender-bending auto accidents. Japanese insurance companies normally dispose of claims without resorting to the almost pro forma suits that many U.S. underwriters seem to demand before a settlement is made. A judge's ruling is sought only in extreme conditions if negotiation fails...