Word: formula
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certainly want people listening, so you have to keep that in mind without compromising your own integrity. You definitely want to play what you love, and hopefully, if you're lucky, other people will like what you're playing and everything works out. I think I've found that formula well enough to have some success...
...more positive result was generated by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who decided to challenge an industry defined by creativity--advertising. The researchers noticed that a large minority of prize-winning ads followed a simple formula: find the product's characteristic that is its selling point, and use images to emphasize that characteristic in the ad. A similar contest found that the ads the researchers' computers produced were generally as good as those of professional ad agencies, while they far surpassed the efforts of human amateurs. For instance, while a human suggested a picture of the walls...
...examples describe true creativity? If creativity means creation in a vacuum, then no. However, very little human creativity may come out of a vacuum. The most powerful literature does not always deal with subjects never considered before, but often presents common experiences in a slightly different light. If a formula can make you look creative, maybe originality is more formulaic than the Romantic ideal of the inspired genius would imply--maybe the interactions of neurons and of transistors aren't that far apart. Literary creativity may be just the first in a number of skills future computers will acquire that...
...general, you should max out on any tax-deferred savings opportunity. This has been especially true since Congress two years ago rolled back a punishing 15% excise tax on withdrawals from retirement accounts deemed, through a complicated formula, to be too large. Be careful, though, if your tax bracket will rise in retirement. Withdrawals from tax-deferred accounts get taxed as income. If you'll be retiring soon, new contributions might not have enough time to grow tax-deferred. You might be better served putting new savings into a tax-efficient mutual fund, like an index fund. When you cash...
Greed is just the first of the quiz-show contenders hoping to cash in on Millionaire's success. Because game shows are cheaper to produce than sitcoms or dramas, nearly every network is scrambling to come up with one. The trick is finding the right formula...