Word: formula
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...professor no doubt never thought of such a brilliant topic as that. Perhaps he only pictured students writing on some relatively useful subject, like the design of a good door stop or the formula for milking a cow to maximize production. Malevolent academics have refined his original scheme. Today, a criterion for thesis-writing seems to be the complete irrelevance of a topic to anything. remotely resembling real life...
Sony and Philips, meanwhile, are trying to wring television-quality video out of compact discs. The two companies, which collaborated to set the standard for music CDs, have come up with a formula that crams 135 minutes of vcr-quality video onto a standard-size CD -- enough to show 97% of the movies now being rented for vcrs, according to a Sony spokesman. Hollywood should love the idea, since the discs are a lot cheaper to make than videotapes and a lot harder to copy, but other equipment manufacturers haven't agreed to adopt the proposed standard...
...only there were a magic potion for losing weight. The morning trudge to the bathroom scale would no longer be so disheartening. The obligatory resolution to shed a few pounds would be easier to keep. And the canny scientists and entrepreneurs who developed this antiflab formula would be richer than Ross Perot. Unfortunately, repeated efforts to produce a weight-loss wonder drug have been no more successful than Perot's presidential bid. Dozens of diet pills have come and gone, raking in billions of dollars for pharmaceutical manufacturers. But for long-term effectiveness, the pills might as well have been...
...dogma but is reputed to harbor less conservative inclinations. Some are convinced Martini could spur reform on issues such as celibacy and women priests. On contraception, he once said, "I believe the Church's teaching has not been expressed so well . . . I'm confident we will find some formula to state things better, so that the problem is better understood and more adapted to reality." Martini is an eminent New Testament scholar who reads or speaks 11 languages and has written nearly 50 books...
...formula has brought about many positive results. Villiote has started the majority of games in goal for all of her four years, and holds a number of Crimson records. Among these are most shutouts in a season (six, achieved in her freshman year of (1991-92), most shutouts in a career (13), most saves in a game (52, in a 3-3 tie vs. Providence last February 19) and most saves in a season...