Word: formula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Replying to Faisal's toast, Nixon said: "We are aware that we cannot produce an instant formula to solve all longtime differences. But what is new in the present situation is that the U.S. is playing a role, a positive role, working toward the goal of permanent peace in the Middle East...
...startling 30%, over three years-50? the first year, and 30? for each of the next two. On top of that, the Amalgamated demands an escalator clause that would raise wages further as the cost of living increases. Union President Murray H. Finley has not yet produced a precise formula, but he rejects a management proposal that seems less than serious. It calls for paying a kind of inflation dividend in the third year of a new contract -but only if prices climb by more than a phenomenal 20% over the first two years. Says Finley: "Management has no conception...
...lure of one-stop shopping. Today showmen are making the same discovery. In a converted pancake house in San Diego, a former laundry in Kansas City, a onetime illegal gambling casino in New Orleans and countless other locations, they are drawing packed houses to dinner theaters. The basic formula: offer cocktails, dinner and a play under one roof, all (except for the liquor) at a fixed price, which varies from a weeknight low of $6 in some Southern towns to a weekend high of $15 in areas close to Boston and New York City. Says Mrs. Russ Carll...
...scrunches down in the back seat of a bus, where he is conveniently overlooked. It is almost as if Siegel lacked confidence in the measured tension of the first half and went after what is supposed to be a sure thing: a chase and a shootout. The standard formula looks particularly shabby on a film good enough to have broken...
...Jackson Grayson Jr., once head of the Price Commission, suggests that some new productivity formula should be devised that takes more into account the quality as well as the volume of a worker's output. The Government, Grayson argues, should follow the lead of Japan, West Germany and Israel, which have productivity institutes to measure the efficiency of industries, develop new management methods and counsel business. Yet the U.S. Government has moved in precisely the opposite direction. The less than adequate National Commission on Productivity was downgraded last year to an Office of Productivity, and its staff and appropriations...