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...impulse may be part of the furless human condition. Actual buying depends on money (full payment before the coat leaves the premises), trust (as in "If Mike says it's good, it is good"), a certain amount of pro forma chat about male vs. female skins and "this year's shoulders." But when the right coat is produced the transformation of the female customer is immediate and complete. A woman who does not achieve incandescence is wearing the wrong coat-or is just spoiled...
...largely pro forma gesture, the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) ended the different sex ratios at Harvard's Houses, and after some soul-searching the Peabody Museum sold off the 106-painting Inman collection for money to conserve better the rest of its collection...
...achieve much beyond the formal signing of SALT II. Said a senior Western diplomat in Moscow: "Brezhnev could attend a couple of dinners and read a paper or two, but he is in no shape to engage in real give-and-take with Carter. It will be a pro forma summit, and it would be useless to expect anything more." Though signing a SALT agreement would be very important, Carter is disappointed at the lack of prospects for going further. Said a top White House adviser: "The President really wanted to sit down and have a good exchange with Brezhnev...
...nuclear power. But as President Carter so aptly commented this week, "I think it does not contribute to safety to have a bureaucratic nightmare or maze of red tape." The studies, presidential commissions and congressional hearings inspired by the Three Mile Island incident threaten to degenerate into pro forma inspections of surface material. If no salient conclusions are drawn and no gutsy probing of the flabby and overweight NRC takes place. Three Mile Island will fade as one of the many nuclear mishaps shoved into obscurity behind the powerful dollars of the nation's energy industry...
Chadli's name will be presented as the sole candidate in a pro forma election on Feb. 7. His nomination settles, for the moment at least, a division within the Revolutionary Council. As Boumedienne lay dying, Colonel Mohammed Salah Yahiaoui began lining up support by asserting that he would be a rigid guardian of Boumedienne's highly centralized, Islamic, socialist policies. Another faction coalesced behind Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika, a cosmopolitan diplomat who is said to favor strengthening the economy and improving ties with the West...