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...time after 35 is an "elderly primigravida." If that sounds unappealing, it may reflect the medical establishment's longtime disapproval of delayed motherhood. The traditional view was that pregnant women in their 30s were risky patients, complications could be expected, and a caesarean, many doctors thought, was pro forma...
...preliminary documents submitted to Federal District Court Judge Barrington Parker, Hinckley's attorneys asked that their client's case be heard by two separate juries, one to make the pro forma determination that Hinckley did indeed shoot Reagan, the other to make the critical judgment about his sanity. Hinckley's lawyers fear that once jurors see videotapes of the shooting and hear exhaustive FBI testimony about Hinckley's elaborate transcontinental drifting in the months that preceded the act, they would be incapable of reaching a verdict dispassionately on the question of his mental state. "Understandably...
Once the board approves the eviction certificates, court approval is likely to be "pretty much a pro forma matter," Moulton said, though she added that "occasionally" the court does not rubber-stamp rent board decisions...
...broadcast date, May 12, approached, PBS came under public relations pressure to do the same, although much of the pleading seemed pro forma, recognizing that the First Amendment would make any real effort to censor the program not only impossible but counterproductive-a fact of life about U.S. freedom of expression that even the Saudis acknowledged. Exxon, which spends $5 million a year on public TV and is also one of the four U.S. partners in the Ara, bian American Oil Co., issued a statement that it would be "extremely unfortunate" if the show were to hurt U.S.-Saudi relations...
Today, ten years after Bok sacrificed academics for administration, his friends say he has changed little. Bok and his wife of 25 years have an unusually close marriage in a community where good relationships do not come easily. "Derek wants to have a family life that is not pro forma," friend and colleague Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, says. In a position where many would be consumed by their work, Bok tries hard to spend time with his wife--and three children--Hilary, Victoria and Thomas...