Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Whatever formula is devised for federal financing, wouldn't a plump public kitty encourage frivolous fringe candidates? Certainly, unless some form of "trigger" or "threshold" mechanism is devised that would compel a candidate to raise a certain amount of private money before federal funds were doled...
...part as the inane and brainless ingenue, but her squeaky voice, exaggerated walk, and batting eyes quickly become tiresome. Joanna Blum is convincing as the sophisticated woman-about-town who tries (to no avail) to pull the Bliss family out of their hopeless theatrics. She, like Abramson, has a formula of winking eyes and sleek walk which loses its charm after repeated usage...
...guidelines for acceptance-rejection on the first reading are very subjective, Berman said, but there is a suggested formula...
...applicants from Harvard College, this formula is: reject--3.25 grade-point average (GPA) combined with 650 LSAT or lower; accept--3.5 GPA with 700 LSAT or higher. To translate these averages to a mixed GPA-LSAT, multiply the GPA by 200 and add it to the LSAT. A combination of 1300 is the maximum for an automatic reject, and a 1400 combination is the minimum instant accept...
Berman declined to release the formula Harvard uses in evaluating applicants from other colleges, but said that they scale the applicant's GPA to equate it to Harvard College grading. Berman explained that a 3.7 average at Princeton is scaled up to equal a Harvard 3.78 average, but a Princeton 3.4 GPA is scaled down to a Harvard...