Word: formulae
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...There are colleges and universities that usually use a formula for admissions, usually state universities," Fitzsimmons said. "We're at the other end of the spectrum on that...
...Blair and Ahern?s efforts to cajole the two sides into accepting a compromise formula will receive plenty of impetus from beyond the gates of Stormont Castle, where the talks are being held. Loyalist Protestant militants from all over Northern Ireland announced Tuesday that, following the British ban on Sunday?s planned march through a Catholic neighborhood in Drumcree, they plan to converge, come what may, on July 12 in Portadown, site of numerous previous clashes with the local Catholic community. So Blair?s strong suit at the talks may well be the now-familiar "alternative too ghastly to contemplate...
...staring at my first semester grades and feeling relief. No shame. No regrets. I had passed everything, hadn't I? This was Harvard. This was Hard. These were grades without hands. It had been four months. I had learned that College was not a "for instant Happiness add water" formula. And to some degree, thank God, I had my hands back...
...Autobiography moves between the late '30s (the Moscow trials, Hitler's incursions into Austria and Sudetenland) and Stalin's life story, which Lourie shrewdly reimagines--a biography enacted within a formula: Darwinism + Leninism = Stalinism. The tough little Georgian survivor, emerging from the Tiflis seminary as a militant atheist, took up petty crime and apprenticed himself not only to Vladimir Ilyich but also to "my hero, my model, my rival," Ivan the Terrible: "Ivan understood the great secret: Cruelty is the cutting edge of history. The deciding factor is always the greatest degree of cruelty most intelligently applied...
...restaurant that rests on a formula doesn't do well," he says. "It gets tired, the people lose interest, the standards start falling...