Word: formally
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Gauging A.E.I.'s influence is difficult, as the institute concentrates on trying to develop conservative economic and political ideas, and rarely takes a formal position on particular measures. But institute members can point to some specific successes. Sharp criticism by Murray Weidenbaum, an A.E.I. fellow and member of TIME'S Board of Economists, helped kill a 1975 proposal by then Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to pour $100 billion of federal money into an emergency energy program. Earlier this year the institute insistently pointed out what it saw as the bureaucratic dangers of the proposed Agency for Consumer Advocacy...
...Then a divorce petition mysteriously found its way into the hands of a Montgomery reporter. Last week matters between the Wallaces deteriorated even further. After almost seven years of marriage, Cornelia packed up her belongings and announced that she could "no longer endure the vulgarity, threats and abuse." No formal action has yet been taken, but if the case goes to court, friends predict, the fur will...
Dean Fox yesterday declined to discuss his decision because he said he has not yet finished a formal letter to Tufts, but he did say he had weighed heavily his "desire not to take steps which would infringe on Quad residents...
Daughter of immigrants from Palermo, Costanza began her career as a switchboard operator. Over 24 years, she rose to executive assistant to a Rochester entrepreneur, and carried out a parallel career in city and state politics. For Vice Mayor Midge (she uses her formal name, Margaret, only on voting machines), politics led to an acquaintanceship with Carter-and, ultimately, her present job. Never married, Costanza lives alone in a Foggy Bottom condominium and devotes virtually all of her waking hours to the job. (The man in her life died last year...
...mainland. Taiwan's 500-plane air force, which includes advanced U.S. F-5E fighters, is considered superior to the mainland's obsolescent fleet; moreover, the Communists do not have the amphibious craft needed to land troops on the island. Still, a U.S. decision to break its formal ties with Taipei could be devastating to Taiwanese morale. But until it happens-if it does-there is no way of knowing just how serious the psychological blow to Taiwan will be if it loses, finally, its most powerful ally...