Word: forma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...LEAK during the transition that soured Bill Clinton's relations with the Joint Chiefs of Staff over the issue of homosexuals in the military. Aspin's top-secret strategy advisory to Clinton -- in which Aspin recommended that discussion of the issue with the Chiefs should be merely pro forma and that Clinton should plow ahead regardless of what they said -- was written on the House Armed Services Committee computer. Administration sources say the memo was stolen from the computer by a Republican committee staff member, who passed it on to G.O.P. opponents of Clinton's policy before he made...
...billion on programs ranging from malaria inoculations to AIDS prevention. Nakajima, his critics charge, has run it in an autocratic manner, but Japan made his reappointment a matter of national pride and applied inordinate pressure to secure it. In May, Nakajima must still win approval, usually pro forma, from the organization's 168-nation assembly...
However short-lived it turns out to be, this military peacemaking still sets a double precedent. For the U.N., it is the first intervention without even pro forma permission in an independent country. For the U.S., it is a major military action in the name of morality: addressing a situation that does not threaten American national security and in which the U.S. has no vital interests. It is, as Bush said, a purely humanitarian action. But then why in Somalia and not in Bosnia? Or Liberia or Sudan...
...description of this production of Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim's musical valentine to the Grimm Brothers' fairy tales. The competent cast does a good job with the funnier first act. But especially in the inherently weaker second act, the actors too often seem lost in pro forma direction and overwhelmed by the pit orchestra from hell. There are saving graces--the well designed set and scene-stealing cow are two examples--but John Weinstein's production of Into the Woods, while polished and charming, is basically shallow...
...notably in 1972 -- and failed to achieve real reconciliation. Nor, despite Seoul's unilateral concession on nukes, did the latest agreement mention the region's most pressing security concern: the North's rapid progress toward developing a nuclear bomb. Even Washington, South Korea's closest ally, coupled its pro forma congratulations with signals of misgivings over the lack of progress on the nuclear front...