Word: formula
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...yard freestyle followed a similar formula with Harvard's Steve Root keeping pace with Mitch Derrick of Princeton early on but eventually letting the Tiger swimmer pull out to a fifteen-yard lead. The Crimson fought back with John Blaney, out in lane seven, who slowly reeled in Derrick while a crowd of about 300 Princeton and Harvard fans were on their feet screaming wildly. On the final lap of the 40-lap race, Blaney and Derrick were even, but the Crimson fell short again, as Derrick touched in at 9:12.84, only .08 seconds ahead of Blaney, who swam...
...miles of gravel road from Jordan, a hiccup of a town on the plains of eastern Montana. Pine Grove is one of 640 one-room public schoolhouses left in the U.S., a good example of a vanishing breed that occupies a hallowed place in American mythology. And the formula still works. Montana alone has more than 100 one-room schools in operation, and the state ranks third nationally in achievement tests...
Toomey presented the plan as a formula for "economic justice in Cambridge housing." But Councillor Edward N. Cyr, Housing and Community Development Committee chair, called it "a cheap publicity gimmick from someone who informed TV cameras before he informed his councilmates...
...Armenian-American lobbies in the U.S. have frequently let grievances against the Turks going back to the days of the Ottomans get in the way of sound policy, common sense and simple fairness. Congress has insisted on apportioning military aid to Greece and Turkey by a rigid and arbitrary formula that links the two, even though geography has assigned Turkey a far more active and vital mission on the front line of international peacekeeping...
Antitrust accusations have dogged the firms for months. In a congressional hearing last May, Senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio denounced the price increases and their "devastating" impact on government programs that buy infant formula for low-income families. Metzenbaum's hearing spurred a still active investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. The companies deny that any conspiracy took place...