Word: formula
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to put a finger on it because it's not as though he has some formula for what he does, he's just a very charming guy and stays that way before a class of 400," says Samuel J. Klein...
According to Tracy Kiley of the Princeton Review, many schools use a formula of LSAT scores and grades, called an index, to rank applicants, with the test often counting for up to 60 percent of the index...
Ultimately, since the children alone do not provide enough compelling material, we look to the adults, but they remain stuck in a formula of hemming and hawing over the kids, whether for or against their existence. A late outburst by Ruth about her friends' disrespect of her seems almost an afterthought, and the wrap-up scene, new baby included and old babies rejuvenated, is played with such a smooth resolution, such a return to levity, that we feel vaguely cheated...
...would certainly be nice if we could restore monogamous marriage without stiff moral sanction. But on this point the history of the world is not encouraging. It is hard to find a society even roughly comparable to ours that has found a painless formula for keeping divorce rare. Japan has a low divorce rate--and divorce is considered so shameful that it actually harms one's career. Victorian England had a divorce rate close to zero long after divorce was legalized--and men who left their families risked being ostracized. In 1950s America, when the divorce rate was still fairly...
...People on DIALYSIS may have a new worry. A study shows that life-spans of patients are reduced about 8% when their machines' plastic filters are routinely sterilized with a common formula, a mixture of peracetic and acetic acid, rather than another cleaner, formaldehyde. One answer is to use new filters (cost: $10 to $75) each time a patient is treated...