Word: formula
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...Under HUD's formula the block grant will be equivalent to the initial categorical grant received by the City agency in the past," the spokesman said yesterday. "But this formula does not make any provision for the secondary 'Piggyback' grants that agencies have been so dependent...
Under the formula for the Better Communities Act the City would be guaranteed the $75,000, but no compensation will be made for the quarter of a million in HEW "piggyback funds," the spokesman said...
...magazine's formula−still not firmly se−is a mix of interviews with prominent musicians and takeouts on their lifestyles. There are personality pieces on country stars like Tammy Wynette and Waylon Jennings, photo takeouts on the mammoth cross-country buses converted into rolling homes by many performers, reviews of films and books that might interest country-music enthusiasts, and of course notices of new country records...
...interpreter of science who once compared Rhine's work favorably with that of Copernicus. In his recent book The Roots of Coincidence, Koestler calls on his considerable skills as a popularizer of modern quantum physics to buttress his beliefs. Matter, he notes, quoting Bertrand Russell, is "a convenient formula for describing what happens where it isn't." An absurdity? Not to the new generation of quantum physicists, says Koestler. No longer able to accept the atom as simply a miniature solar system in which negatively charged electrons blithely circle the positive nucleus, they found that the "electrons kept...
...quota system now in use was developed in 1969 by a committee headed by Zeph Stewart, Master of Lowell House. Stewart said yesterday that according to the formula, quotas are based on the ideal number of students a suite will hold--one to a bedroom. The excess population is assigned to equalize the proportion of overcrowded suites...