Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviets have tested four new intercontinental ballistic missiles and have developed their first submarine-launched multiple warhead missile. The Pentagon, meanwhile, as part of a record $85.8 billion budget request, included items to improve missile accuracy, guidance and control that are also meant to prod the Soviets into a formula for "essential equivalence" in missiles and payloads. At a predeparture press conference in Washington last week, Kissinger indicated that the two nations had passed the stage of technical exchanges and were "at the point where we should be making, or should be attempting, a conceptual breakthrough on arms limitation agreements...
...statesman rather than a diplomat. Yitzhak Rabin, Israel's former Chief of Staff, as well as Ambassador to Washington and now Minister of Labor, recalls vividly Kissinger's own definition of the distinction: "The diplomat believes that an international conflict derives from misunderstanding. Therefore he seeks a verbal formula to overcome it. The statesman believes that conflict derives from a difference of interest and confrontation positions. Therefore he tries to change the realities on the ground...
...Died. Peter Jeffrey Revson, 35, American international road racer; while test driving his Formula I UOP Shadow at the Kyalami circuit near Johannesburg, South Africa. A wealthy playboy-he was recently linked with Marjorie Wallace, the dethroned Miss World titleholder-Revson was more than a dilettante motorist. He was runner-up at the Indianapolis 500 in 1971 and won the British Grand Prix in the same year. His most recent major victories were the British and Canadian Grand Prix...
...topic of the week in University Hall was equality. On Wednesday the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life declared itself in favor of equalizing the enrollment of men and women; one day later the administration detailed the effects on each House of the new formula for equalizing House occupancy quotas...
Instead of merely extrapolating a figure from the number of rooms in a particular House, as the old plan did, the new formula establishes quotas influenced by several other factors in each House: architectural variations, differences in the amount of space occupied by resident tutors, and inequities in the previous quotas for the House...