Word: formally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...widespread was the liberal defection to Byrd that Humphrey, recognizing he had no chance of winning, withdrew. Two days later, however, Humphrey received a consolation prize--he was made deputy president pro tem of the Senate, garnering a $7500 pay increase, a limousine, a larger office, and no new formal responsibilities...
...Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (Workshop of Potential Literature). OuLiPo's 17 members - all Paris-based writers and scientists - meet once a month at well-lubricated lunches to discuss the creation of new literary structures, most of them based on mathematical forms. Asks the group's formal manifesto: "Must we abide by the known recipes and obstinately refuse to imagine new formulas? What certain writers have introduced in their fashion, with talent (indeed genius), OuLiPo intends to do systematically and scientifically, and if need be, by resorting to the good offices of computers." "Structure is the work...
...former Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs and its personnel are typically drawn from Korean government ministries. The KTA therefore represents not simply the ordinarily close involvement of any business with government typical of a developing country; it is, in every but the most purely formal sense an agency of the Korean government. More than this, it is an agency involved in governmental control functions which connect it with the KCIA and render it potentially susceptible to that awesome agency's influence...
...seems more certain that Carter will make good on his promise of a more modest presidential style. He plans to wear a blue business suit to his-Inaugural, instead of the customary morning clothes, and, when no formal guests are expected, to don jeans from time to time while working in the White House. He may also continue to stay overnight occasionally in private homes as he travels the U.S. He wants to minimize the use of Air Force One and to ride in an armored Ford LTD instead of the bigger and fancier Continental limousine most Presidents have used...
Died. Russel Wright, 72, a designer who created simple, elegant furniture and accessories for American homes; of cancer; in Manhattan. Though he had little formal training, Wright helped to revolutionize the appearance of everyday household items, from accordions to flatware. He was noted for popularizing the use of blond wood in home furnishing and also for designing plastic dinnerware that sold by the millions. Wright put handgrips on his colorful dinner plates "to keep thumbs out of the food...