Word: formula
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...guidelines, boats must be 30% lighter and have 40% more sail ) area and hulls 20% longer than the former 12-m (13.1-yd.) boats. The boats may mix sail size, hull size and weight in any way they choose so long as, according to a complicated mathematical formula, the numbers add up to 42,000 m (45,900 yds.). From an infinite number of combinations, the boat designers try to find the best mix -- with the help of computers, water tanks and wind tunnels. Their efforts focus on three key areas...
...walking. I think better with my legs moving, and it is good to get away from Harvard Square. I like the quiet rhythm of covering ground on foot. Over the past four years I have developed a formula. A small problem may take me to the Charles. A medium problem and I will make it to Porter Square. With a real predicament I may end up out in East Boston and have to take the subway back...
With a few exceptions such as Ralph Ellison, writers white and Black have used jazz as formula for cheap "atmosphere." Morrison rises above his temptation. There is no explicit jazz anywhere in this novel, no over-romantic images of saxophones and speak-easies. Instead, jazz is transmuted into narrative voice--a voice that at times surges poetically, at times sounds like a newsreel, at times is all-knowing...
...subtracting the amount that he or she saved and invested. All forms of income would be counted, including wages, interest, dividends, capital gains, Social Security benefits and employer-provided health insurance. The savings and investments that could be deducted might include spending on education and job training. A similar formula could be used for taxes on businesses...
...WANNA GET ROCKED?" shouts DEF LEPPARD on its new album, Adrenalize (Mercury). The answer, judging by the way the record has beaten Springsteen to the top spot on the pop charts, is a thunderous yes. The British band offers its trademark formula: a sonic avalanche of crunching power chords, rock-solid rhythms and surprisingly tuneful vocals. The lyrics remain gleefully sophomoric. On Make Love Like a Man, singer Joe Elliott pleads, "Don't call me gigolo./ Don't call me Casanova./ Just call me on the phone, and baby c'mon over." The Leps may not change the world...