Word: formula
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When pressed by Kalb on his pledge to increasesocial spending programs at the same that he plansto balance the federal budget, Simon resorted tohis tried and true rhetorical formula, urging thecountry "to seize and create our own destiny...
...Company, 1970); and the decline of the chorus-girl kick line as a metaphor for the loss of American innocence (Follies, 1971). Like Picasso, who painted a few realistic canvases as if to demonstrate he could, or Eugene O'Neill, who leavened his epic tragedies with one comedy of formula perfection, Ah, Wilderness, Sondheim proved in his lyrics for West Side Story and Gypsy and his words and music for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum that he could work within the conventions as adeptly as anyone. But he perceived, earlier than almost...
...transitive property of inequality is a simple formula you may have learned in geometry or logic class. It states: if A is greater than B, and B is greater than C, then A will be greater than...
...cries for presidential leadership that rose from Wall Street now echo across the country. Here is one formula for the man in the White House in such a crisis...
...deficit spending, especially on a steadily expanding economy, makes the U.S. far too hungry for imported merchandise. This connection between the twin deficits has been almost universally recognized for years, and yet the Administration and Congress are still spending well beyond the country's means. That is the perilous formula that came to grief last week...