Word: formally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first half of the century, juvenile courts were considered to be benevolent centers concerned with the welfare of children, who thus did not require formal legal safeguards. But practice fell short of the ideal. In 1967 the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed juvenile justice procedures through In re Gault, a case involving an Arizona boy abruptly jailed after making an obscene telephone call. The court decided that Gault and other young defendants should have many due-process rights available previously only to adults. Among them were the rights to consult an attorney and to cross-examine witnesses...
...Center's library, his untucked white shirt sticking out below his suit jacket. He clutches a protractor in one hand as though he has forgotten it is there, and his mind seems to be somewhere among the stars he is studying. The library where he ponders has no formal checkout desk. No librarians remind borrowers to fill out checkout slips, which simply admonish borrowers to return books as soon as they can. Casual discussions in various offices around the Center concern satellite launching, photon sorting, and ways of measuring gravity waves. A bumper sticker on one office door says cryptically...
...back exports to the U.S.-mainly of work, athletic and vinyl shoes-in return for a pledge of no tariff increase. The Administration hopes that other nations, such as Italy, Spain and Brazil, will reduce their shoe sales in the U.S. (or at least not increase them) without formal negotiations. The President also pledged to ask Congress for federal aid to the domestic shoe industry that could total $1 billion over the next decade. Said Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss: "We knew this decision wouldn't satisfy anybody...
...commission held a preliminary meeting Tuesday with Rosalynn Carter, its honorary chairman, and will hold its first formal meeting April...
...about half a million dollars, stand in the shadow of the $30 million fundraising drive under way for the new Soldier's Field athletic complex. It is unclear whether the Observatory Hill athletic complex, which would sit mere yards away from the Quad Houses, will ever be built, No formal fundraising efforts for the complex have begun. Fox said he thought "the bulk of our energies have to be devoted toward the Quad for these years," but he added that "at this time the [Observatory Hill] athletic complex is not a realistic possibility, for lack of money...