Word: formula
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...these firms, it is no longer career suicide to turn down a promotion or delay a transfer for family reasons. Both companies have jettisoned the rigid "get up or get out" corporate formula that held that managers, like sharks, must constantly move forward or sink. After all, many executives these days are women with small children or women whose husbands are pursuing ambitious careers of their own. John Zimmerman, an MCI senior vice president, cites the case of the corporate-development executive, a mother, who has turned down two promotions in the past year because she did not want...
Under a current law sponsored by state Rep. William Galvin (D-Boston), capacity limits for bars and restaurants are set by a formula based on the establishments' total floor area...
...each year after 1992, if the fund increases, the excess would be distributed through a formula devised by the state secretary of administration and finance, with the advice and consent of the Local Government Advisory Committee. If the fund decreases after 1992, each town or city will have the amount it receives decreased by the same percentage...
...Fish and Wildlife Service study, 219 birds were grabbed from several remote locations, including some national wildlife refuges, and shot. The carcasses, many doused with oil, were fitted with radio tracers and tossed into the sea to develop a tracking formula...
...exceptions to the new truth-in-packaging program remain meat, poultry and egg products, which are regulated by the Department of Agriculture. Restaurant food, prepared dishes sold in supermarkets or delicatessens, infant formula and a few other items, most of them with little or no nutritive value, are likewise exempt...