Word: formal
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...which had been suggested to him by the first editor of Audubon magazine, combined two passions that Peterson had developed during his somewhat dreamy and, in the view of his no-nonsense father, lackadaisical childhood in Jamestown, New York: looking at birds and painting pictures. Since he lacked any formal ornithological training, Peterson brought to his project a refreshing dose of common sense. People could not lug folios of Audubon reproductions to where the birds were; Peterson made his guide pocket-size. He also devised what remains the easiest-to-use method of bird identification. "I grouped birds that look...
...their spouse] has an established medical practice we might make a formal phone call, but it's not worth the long hiring process because there's a very small chance," says Romer, who will be a professor at the Kennedy School along with her husband next year...
...news accounts as "executive orders," a splendidly take-charge term that calls to mind great moments in presidential history: Truman integrating the Army in 1948, Eisenhower dispatching troops to desegregate a Little Rock, Arkansas, high school in 1957. But in fact, very few of Clinton's recent actions are formal Executive Orders. He doesn't issue them any more frequently than George Bush did. Instead, Clinton's tools of choice are known as "presidential directives" and "memoranda to agencies." A President's way of telling his bureaucrats what to do, they carry less weight than Executive Orders tend...
...staff). In an interview a few days after the ruling, the attorney general stressed that he has no plans to challenge the opinion; he now sees it as providing an "opportunity" for the entire state to do better by Hartford's minority students. Though his position gives him no formal role in the process, he says he wants to take part in devising effective desegregation strategies that preserve local school districts. Blumenthal had moved from the combative to the constructive--which is where Connecticut's leaders should have been in the first place...
...forum will meet again this October for a formal launching of the book...