Word: formula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press conference in London, Whitelaw contended that Ulstermen "must face facts as they are and not as they may either think they ought to be, or hope they would be." On that blunt basis, the political parties of Northern Ireland will be given until next March to evolve a formula for a new constitution. Before then, Ulster will be asked to vote on whether it wishes to remain within the United Kingdom or join with the Republic of Ireland. As a prelude to that plebiscite, the Dublin government plans a referendum on whether the Irish constitution should continue to grant...
...billion for this calendar year and $30 billion over the five-year life of the program. One-third of the money will go to states, the rest to communities. They can spend it as they like. Funds will be doled out on the basis of an exquisitely complicated formula based on population, tax collections, and per capita income. The formula will result in some quirky distribution. Mayor Hancock of Mitchell, Ind., which will receive about $17,000, thinks that his town of 4,000 residents is being so scandalously shortchanged that he is threatening not to accept the money...
...curtailing growth, male enrollment should be cut to make room for more women. Whether equal admissions on these terms would require too deep a cut in the male class is a proper subject of concern. The admissions offices are best equipped to solve the difficult problem of finding the formula that best provides for strength and diversity within the constraints of a smaller class...
...government is prepared to proceed with an "agreed" solution even if it carries the backing of only the Unionist Party (which has traditionally represented most Protestants) and the Liberal Alliance Party (which includes many Catholics). If no one agrees, the Cabinet will then formulate its own solution. However the formula is arrived at, it will first be presented as a White Paper early in the New Year (probably at the beginning of February), at the same time that a referendum is held on whether the citizens of Ulster want to join Ireland - a proposition that the Protestant majority seems certain...
...positive-thinking. Scarcely 3,000 strong in 1945, the sect numbers 8,000,000 members today, including at least 100,000 in the U.S. It was the founding force and remains the sustaining power behind Japan's third largest political party, the Komeito (Clean Government) Party. Its formula for success, both personal and collective, is simple: the relentless chanting of a brief ritual prayer before replicas of the sect's treasured Dai-Gohonzon, a camphorwood tablet inscribed with mystic symbols by a 13th century monk named Nichiren...