Word: formula
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minute drive from her home. She likes to go late at night, after Sam is asleep, for some solitude among the bargains. But on this Saturday morning she's there by 11, filling her cart with four winter shirts for her son, four ladies' shirts, baby wipes and formula, paper towels, a flea comb for her two cats, 136 diapers, and a box of graham crackers to occupy Sam, who's strapped happily into the front of the cart. The total comes to $146.13. "I thought," she says as she writes the check, "that it would be more...
Lori worries little about inflation; instead, she shops for speed. She rarely clips coupons, except for baby formula, and stops at a small grocery on her way home from work rather than go out of her way to a larger and slightly cheaper supermarket. "You have to walk half a mile just to get some onions," she says. "Time is so valuable...
...item of import chic since 1987, when it began touring the U.S. with a show called Le Cirque Reinvente. The Cirque style--circus acts (no animals, just humans) with the gloss of stage magic and a mysterioso musical score--is no longer an automatic astonishment; form has congealed into formula. Putting one of its extravaganzas, Mystere, in a Las Vegas casino and planning new shows in Vegas and Walt Disney World are moves that rob Cirque of its old street-theater purity. Then there are all the mimes: twee kitsch for which no enterprise can be forgiven. So with...
...claimed, was a way to get around the more noxious aspects of the reviled Clipper chip, the Administration's first doomed attempt to balance the industry's call for stronger encryption with law enforcement's need to surveil our shadier citizens. Clipper, as proposed, would use a powerful encryption formula to encode communications sent over telephones and computer networks but would require that a "back door" key be built into each chip that would give police--where warranted, of course--a means to eavesdrop...
...Ironically, like most highly-selective schools, we are best prepared to deal with change, because they are not formula-driven," Browning says. "We include a couple of essay questions designed to get at special experiences and talents...