Word: formula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the big money will start flowing in. Then he will move on to Florida and Wisconsin, where the strategy will be to appeal to youth, blacks, farmers and the urban poor-the kind of populist alliance that he needs to win the nomination. But it is a formula that has not worked well for him thus far, and it is hard to imagine McGovern forging in three months a coalition that has eluded him for the past year...
...disruptive demonstrations to make it clear to the Faculty and the Administration that they want no part of the CRR or the Resolution which spawned it. And for two years, the Faculty and Administration have ignored these indications and clung to the hope that, if only the correct technical formula can be found, the student body can be induced to swallow...
Indeed, if there really is some day discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices--that is, an explanation of what they depend upon, by what laws they arise, how they develop, what they are missing at in one case and in another and so on, that is, a real mathematical formula--then, most likely, man will cease to feel desire, indeed, he will be certain to. For who would want to choose by rule? Notes from Underground...
Grievance Formula. On Thanksgiving Day, prisoners shouted demands for total amnesty; that had been the principal obstacle to a settlement at Attica. They set fires inside the cellblock to dramatize their grievances. But behind the scenes, negotiations went on quietly. The armed assault was called off. Cahill's presence, which the men inside the prison learned about from radio announcements, probably contributed to a swift and peaceful settlement. The Governor said later that he would have done whatever was possible to avoid bloodshed. "I probably would have gone in myself." New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller had refused to travel...
...academic dismissals (TIME, Oct. 19, 1970). The purpose of the program was to provide an educational second chance for graduates of the city's mediocre high schools who otherwise would not qualify for college. To critics among faculty, alumni and outside educators, the experiment seemed like a formula for disaster. Many agreed with Vice President Spiro Agnew, who warned that the city was "trading away one of the intellectual assets of the Western world for a four-year community college and 100,000 devalued diplomas...