Word: formula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Princeton upped its Ivy mark to 2-0 with a 14-7 conquest at Dartmouth. Either the Big Green think that losing the first three games of the season is a sure-fire formula for winning the title, like last year, or they really are in trouble. They have scored a total of ten points this season...
FRINGE CANDIDATES. A presidential candidate from a party not defined as major would be entitled to public funds under a formula linked to the percentage of the public vote his party received in the most recent presidential election. (The American Independent Party, which ran John G. Schmitz for President in 1972, polled 1,099,482 votes, only less than 5% of the total, and thus would not qualify...
...encouraging. The meeting might create a momentum leading to a kind of "energy NATO" that would give the U.S. a chance to try its strategy for bringing down oil prices. If the citizens of the oil-importing countries can be persuaded to adopt conservation measures, and if a formula for limiting exports is accepted, then?the Americans optimistically reason?the oil exporters would start to quarrel over how to share the shrinking market. This could eventually weaken and perhaps break up the oil cartel, permitting prices to respond to the demands of an uncontrolled marketplace...
...doctrinal error, none was more celebrated than Boston Jesuit Leonard Feeney. Technically, the Vatican excommunicated him in 1953 for refusing to meet with the Pope, but his beliefs caused his earlier 1949 suspension by Archbishop Richard Gushing. Feeney's undoing was his hard-line reading of the formula, first proposed by Church Fathers Origen and Cyprian in the 3rd century, that "outside the church there is no salvation...
...this formula miss the second time around? It's difficult to say. It was probably not due to the band's lack of talent. At the least, they handled their instruments adeptly. The arrangements, however, were noticeably inferior to those on Rock and Roll Animal, particularly "White Light/White Heat" and "Rock and Roll." The lead guitarist concentrated mostly on rhythm which left a void in many of the arrangements. Finally, the give and take between Reed and his band during the Academy of Music sessions was more pronounced--the band was given a share of the limelight during the instrumental...