Word: formula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...owners of another dry-goods firm were so impressed with his diligence that they sent him to the mining hamlet of Kemmerer to open a new shop-called The Golden Rule Store. In tiny Kemmerer, almost everybody bought on credit-and paid high prices. Penney, then 26, tried another formula: cash, but with a slender markup to attract big volume. He attributed his chain's success to that policy, and to the profit-sharing plan that he started in 1907, which he said made his employees "associates." With annual sales of $4.1 billion, J.C. Penney today ranks...
...legislation to require a complete withdrawal of all American military forces from Vietnam within the next year. Says McGovern: "Our intervention in Vietnam's civil war was not an act of national strength but rather a drifting with the tide of old ideas and illusions. Vietnamization is not a formula for ending the killing in Vietnam. It is a clear design to keep the war going by ending criticism in the United States...
...young lawyer hired as Executive Director, after only one week on the job, Cronin began his administration by temporarily adjusting all rents to the current level, a move of questionable legal status, and now that the rollback provision has finally been implemented, he has come up with a formula to determine rent adjustments that will mean rent raises throughout the city...
...history where a class desires to escape altogether from its 'apartheid and identifies its rights with those of society as a whole . . . The reflex of class hierarchy was the aggressive consciousness of themselves as an 'estate' almost a separate 'nation' on its own. The very success of the conservative formula made it necessary to turn one's back on all that did not concern one." Should "black nationalists" succeed in imposing such a conservative formula, black liberation would have been further postponed to the Greek Kalends...
...exact a $2 levy upon every act of sexual intercourse performed in the state. Banking on either gallantry, male chauvinism or both, Gladstone suggested that only men should pay, and on a voluntary basis. Otherwise, he speculated, tax inspectors might find the law difficult to enforce. By some inscrutable formula, Gladstone announced that for every male Rhode Islander, his tax would bring in $2 a week...