Word: formula
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alpert and Wilson devised a formula of peanut butter and boric acid which is designed to attract ants, Liem said. Operation DEAD calls for the formula to be spread over cards and left around every room in the house...
...same time, Gapification assuages that old Republican need to be better than others by guaranteeing that, at some level, someone will not be able to wear it and eat it (and be nice and middle class). It is a standard formula: ideologies which proclaim "All humans can be Gapified" are inverted, becoming "Only the Gapified are human...
TELEVISION The networks' latest hot formula: women as victims...
...getting trapped into so direct a role that it would seem to be arm-twisting one side or the other. Bush and Baker tiptoed through that minefield adroitly enough last week. The President reassured a wary Israeli delegation by speaking of "territorial compromise" instead of "land for peace," a formula that Israelis loathe. He also backed the Israeli view that the conference should lead not just to nonbelligerency but to "real peace." Explained Bush: "I mean treaties. Security. Diplomatic relations. Economic relations. Trade. Investment. Cultural exchange. Even tourism." At the same time, he responded to an Arab concern by calling...
...formula is depressingly familiar: a happy woman has her life shattered by a senseless crime, family tragedy or miscarriage of justice. From then on, society conspires against her with the intensity of the manhunt that pursued Thelma and Louise. Her enemies are smart and conniving, her allies weak and ineffectual. Her husband may try to help, but he is typically unreliable. Children, though loving, can be cruel. And everybody yells...