Word: formula
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...immediately approved a supplemental plan, estimated to cost an additional $400 million, to make benefits even better for workers in some states. The second bill, which Senate leaders believe will be enacted this week, is designed to satisfy Senators who feel their states were shortchanged in the other formula...
...David Duke, we have seen the face of American decline. Of course you can argue about whether the United States has entered a long-term decline similar to Britain's. And even if it has, you can argue whether politicians of one party or the other have the right formula for reversing course. But if decline is America's destiny, American society is not likely to take it as mildly as Britain...
Disguised race baiting persists in politics for a simple reason: it works. "Some of us would like to get beyond this business of scaring people and dividing them against blacks," says one of George Bush's closest political advisers, "but it's hard to argue against a formula that's seen as successful." The tactic has succeeded best in states and districts where the minority population is large enough that whites can be made to feel threatened by it. When George Brown ran for re-election as Tennessee's first black supreme court justice in 1980, he says...
...classic formula says California, the richest and most populous state, is the future. California is America's bright, strange cultural outrider: whatever happens now in California, or to California, will be happening to America before long, and to the entire world a little while after that. If you want to know whether America still works, then ask whether California still works. Does the reckless American hospitality to immigrants still accomplish its transformations and synergies? Can America still absorb so many disparate values and traditions and form them into a successful society? Or will the nation vanish into an incoherent future...
...Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait was seen by Westerners as a violation of sovereignty and international law, Tibi said. "But sovereignty is a Western formula...