Word: forma
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...After words of pro forma praise for Freston, who ascended to CEO after building the MTV unit into a lucrative global brand, Redstone made it clear that he and the company's other directors felt that the man who at one time was regarded as his heir apparent hadn't been bold enough as leader of the parent. "We love Tom, but the board felt that not enough was being done," Redstone said during a Tuesday morning conference call with investment analysts and journalists. "We were not moving as entrepreneurially and aggressively as we should. Our communication with Wall Street...
...decades. His choice of the word was also a reminder of how Australia has changed under Howard-and how the notion of reform has been manipulated, if not debased. The superannuation measures are sensible and overdue. It's the sort of house-keeping that was pro forma in the Hawke-Keating years; there was a lot to do, and the Labor leaders did most of it. Howard-Costello gradualism, however, is chamber music compared with their predecessors' hip-hop approach: mixing it up, three turntables on the go, to a Labor beat...
...have gathered in the Perkins Room for ad hoc committee meetings say that the president’s personality changes the atmosphere of the meeting—and that Summers is serious and thorough, especially when compared to his predecessors.“It’s not pro forma. Different presidents have had different approaches to the ad hoc—I remember one president who never asked one question on a committee,” says Philip A. Kuhn ’54, who is Higginson professor of history and of East Asian languages and civilizations (EALC...
...have no idea what you've done," the 73-year-old man muttered after he failed to bar the farmhouse door to Renato Cortese, the police officer who had burst through to take him into custody. Cortese brushed off the remark as a typical bad guy's pro forma plea of innocence. He was certain he had his man. The soft-spoken, cigar-smoking cop with a salt-and-pepper beard had been on the hunt for seven years, staring at version after version of sketches of the fugitive. "I'd had dreams about him, of his face...
...borde de su piscina a elegir guiones, invitaciones y regalos. Pero Hayek, de 38 a?os, sigue trabajando como el primer d?a. Se hizo cargo de Pen?lope Cruz, una potencial rival, cuando la actriz espa?ola lleg? a Hollywood. Ha tratado de enviar m?s producciones f?lmicas a M?xico como una forma de reconstruir la industria f?lmica de su pa?s. Y est? trabajando en dos nuevas cintas norteamericanas y dos programas de televisi?n, adem?s de escribir un gui?n para Jamie Foxx. Puede que a Hayek la hayan descubierto por su cuerpo, pero hoy en d?a es mejor conocida por su respetable trabajo...