Word: formula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came right before the opening of the OAS foreign ministers' meeting in Washington last week. The Cuba issue was not on the group's formal agenda, but Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said he thinks that the OAS has reached a "general understanding" on a formula for ending the trade and diplomatic embargo. At the same time, two congressional subcommittees opened joint hearings aimed at proposing new legislation that could lift the economic embargo...
...police or hospital melodrama, but the very magniture of the pseudo-events it chronicles--possible only on screen--give it a dignity beyond its intrinsic merit. When combined with an ingratiating morality, a wealth of invention in the heroism department, and a certain measure of abstract visual beauty, the formula--even if formulae can only take us a small way towards greatness in art--is irresistible, and critical preconceptions are extinguished in a blaze of glory...
This revelation was confirmed when he returned to India in 1967, and saw his Indian students mindlessly mastering formula without understanding the context of their skills. "The question just had to hit you in the face," he recalls. "What did this have to do with the problems of Indian development?" He picked up Galbraith's The New Industrial State, and found many of his vague concerns about traditional economics and its deficiencies clearly stated. The seeds of discontent were sown. All he needed was hope for something...
...calls "New York City's breadbasket" right after being elected in 1971. His first step was to set up a twelve-man committee of farmers and charge it with rinding a way to keep the farm lands. John Talmage, 45, a farmer in Riverhead, suggested the development-rights formula. The idea seemed so radical, he recalls, that "I thought it was not salable...
...move into established middle-class urban neighborhoods on the fringes of commercial districts. The strategy made good business sense; the places would attract the lunchtime crowd from the nearby offices and stores, and could draw on the residential area for evening customers. But in these locations, the basic formula of fast-food chains-flamboyant stores plus a heavy volume of take-out orders and quick turnover of customers-often is also the formula for trouble. Streets for blocks around become littered with emblemed boxes, cups and bags; double-parking near the outlet causes traffic jams; transients drawn by inexpensive food...