Word: formal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pants," since the temperature that day was -40F with wind-chill, about ten degrees colder than his estimated cutoff for wearing pants. Don only owns one pair of jeans, but is thinking of "splurging" and buying another one. Don, Dave and Mike all succumb to wearing pants on formal occasions...
...never to have had to serve an apprenticeship. There would be something almost chilling, if it weren't so cheering, about the ease with which, at 20, he negotiated the considerable challenges of rhyme and meter he set for himself. Of course he belonged to a generation of surpassing formal accomplishment. That fertile decade of his birth-the 1920s-also gave us Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, Howard Moss, Amy Clampitt, Howard Nemerov. But as a craftsman he exceeded them all-in the thrill of the unexpected, anyway. Indeed, more than any American poet ever (with the possible exception of Marianne...
...poets drawn to rhyme and meter, Merrill was a source of inspiration and intimidation-a salutary reminder that a poem's "finish" is rarely finished. Among those for whom formal verse seemed passa, he was accorded a notably ungrudging respect: there was simply no gainsaying his mastery, his seriousness, his artistic probity...
...Latino's takeover by the government, arrest warrants were issued for 82 of its directors and managers; many were believed to have fled the country. As bank after bank failed, the wanted list swelled. While some of the bankers turned themselves in and were released on bail to await formal indictments and trials, several set up in Miami. Among them: - Ricardo Cisneros, a former Banco Latino director who with his brother Gustavo runs Grupo Cisneros, a multibillion-dollar conglomerate that owns, among other things, the Spalding sporting-goods company. Cisneros, who is charged with fraud, contends that...
...with the software giant Microsoft Corp, asking an appeals court to overturn federal Judge Stanley Sporkin''s rejection of the deal. Attorney General Janet Reno rebuked Sporkin, saying he had overstepped his authority by partially basing his decision on business practices that were not included in the government''s formal charges against Microsoft. If Judge Sporkin''s ruling stands, it could prompt a tougher settlement, requiring Microsoft to let competitors write software for its operating systems, which run some 80 percent of all personal computers. "You have this really bizarre scenario in which the trust-busters have gone...