Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With that, Richardson faced the task of trying to persuade Petersen, Beall and his staff that in the best interests of the country, Agnew should be allowed to go free if the right formula could be worked out. TIME has learned that, in order to placate his aides, Richardson took the unusual step of allowing anyone who could not live with that decision to make a public statement of his objections. He gave his word that any dissenter would not damage his career at Justice by speaking...
...evangelical zeal of the distributors, Dart regularly holds sales jubilees at which the most successful of the housewife-saleswomen are awarded such prizes as new cars, microwave ovens and all-expense trips to London and Tokyo with their husbands. Of late, Dart has found the seemingly all-American formula quite as valuable overseas: Tupperware has been expanding abroad, and per capita sales in France now surpass those...
Refreshing Tendency. Tupperware is not the only ingredient in the Dart success formula. The company's crack chemicals division, which is expected to show a 40% surge in profits this year, was put together in 1960 to produce polyethylene. It now has 170 U.S. and 460 foreign patents. Both G.E. and Exxon have become licensees. More important in Dart's view, the division contributes product technology to the company's other units, like Tupperware. By merger, Dart has also moved into fabricated plastic products and glass bottles...
...Saturday by a telephone call from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Nixon was kept informed of developments through the day by calls from Kissinger as the Secretary of State sought to get the two sides to stop shooting at each other. After trying vainly to work out a peace formula with the Israeli and Arab Foreign Ministers in New York, where he was conferring with diplomats attending the U.N. General Assembly, Kissinger flew to Washington. In a spasm of telephone calls, he talked to every permanent member of the Security Council. That evening he chaired a meeting of the Washington...
...possibilities for satire were obviously limitless. After the song came out (and became one of the largest-selling country records in history), Haggard was bombarded by requests for rights to the music: rock singers wanted to change the lyrics and strike back. A sure success formula, but Haggard refused to sell, and someone had to write a new tune for "Hippie from Olema" ("we don't throw our beer cans out the window," love, peace, etc.). Arlo Guthrie used to kick off his concerts with "Okie" itself, verbatim...