Word: formula
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fientists has brought out an antidepressant that actually works, because it stirs only cautious hopes for a couple of laughs and a few innocent thrills, then genially, inventively exceeds them. Its brand name is Tremors, and the curious thing about it is that it is based on an ancient formula, practically a folk remedy: a small isolated community is disturbed first by mysterious rumblings, then by alarming disappearances and deaths, after which large, smart, implacable creatures manifest themselves and desperate defenses are improvised by a cast that is not obviously wiser or braver than the average audience...
...Gorbachev hopes to appease Lithuanians with pledges to help them achieve independence within a federation, while soothing conservatives with promises that any formula for secession will be worked out in Moscow. There is still room for compromise; while all parties to the conflict bandy words like "self-determination," "federation" and "sovereignty," few have attempted to nail down their precise meanings...