There were no signs, however, that Winfrey has done anything to formally prepare for a 2020 campaign or has spoken with Democratic operatives.
Since November, the Pentagon has urged Karzai to sign the deal, but has stopped short of formally preparing for what is known as the "zero option," or full withdrawal.
President Obama has ordered the Pentagon to begin formally preparing for a complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Tuesday, signaling that the Obama administration increasingly sees that as a possible outcome.
Bentley took a lectureship at the University of Chicago, but, rather than pursuing the career for which he had formally prepared himself, he went to work as a newspaperman, mostly at the Chicago Times-Herald.
A formally prepared business plan is much more than, well, a formality.
The rule is that you're supposed to be formally prepared and 99.9-per-cent done.
Graduate school does not formally prepare postdocs for the political battleground ahead in the academic trenches.
Some executives give a half-hour time slot to each idea, but if you're scheduled for 30 minutes, formally prepare only a solid 10 minutes — because you will get interrupted.
In the coming days and weeks and months, we will read stories and absorb anecdotes about how the Washington Nationals' new manager — as he was formally proclaimed Monday — is prepared for this job.
A police spokesman said the teenager has not yet been formally identified and a report is being prepared for a coroner, but his family has been contacted.
