Word: formally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most striking thing illustrated by the show is how far behind photography?meaning the photographs Szarkowski designates as "serious"?has left its old role as witness to public events. Not one picture in the exhibition, except for an exquisitely formal-looking image of a fire in Minneapolis by Irwin B. Klein, looks in any way like a news photo. This must seem strange at first, since the past 20 years have been the most photographed in history. Everything that happened, one might suppose, happened before a camera; there has never been anything like the sheer bulk of visual documentation...
...that the Postal Service wanted to drop the no-layoff clause that was in the old contract. The unions feared that increasing automation in the sorting of mail could put more and more of their members out of work. Finally, at 10 p.m. last Thursday, two hours before the formal expiration of the contract, the Postal Service negotiators agreed to retain the no-layoff clause, and progress on the other issues came almost immediately...
Iacocca professed no future plans other than to take a vacation later this month, and to have his desk at Ford cleaned out in time for his formal departure on Oct. 15. Auto executives traded rumors all week that Iacocca had been tapped for a top job at Chrysler Corp., a story Chrysler directors denied. Other reports had him negotiating with major corporations outside the auto industry...
...Dibdin and Estleman observe the law, grant them that. As the mystery writer Dorothy Sayers will write of the Sherlockian pastiche, "The rule of the game is that it must be played as solemnly as a county cricket match at Lord's." Neither writer mocks; both stories are formal. Both will have readers clued to their seats. But face it, old fellow, your speech is pathetically easy to echo...
...plan now goes to the U.N. Security Council for formal approval, probably late next week. Though the Western powers would have preferred immediate action to forestall an incident that could upset the fragile agreement, it was decided to wait until after the Organization of African Unity summit this week, when the continent's leaders are expected to give it their blessing...