Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end the retailers had achieved their goal: the COLC approved a new price-ceiling formula that would permit station owners to boost prices by 10 to per gal., depending on how much they were selling gas for on May 15 and how much their wholesale costs had gone up since then...
Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe is the cowboy of El Dorada. Chandler, using the West again as a frontier, with an unfamiliar lifestyle, offers a similar formula. Marlowe operates out of a unique, a personal system of value. Consequently, he is only nominally legitimate. His world is as moral as he makes it, but, on the highest levels, he is an intensely moral man. Marlowe is certainly his own man. He has codes of morality, justice, legitimacy. And he is comfortable in an urban, mechanized world. Even though the same essential things happen in each succeeding Chandler novel, the character...
Cannon also benefits from solid direction. Lawrence Dobkin, directing Wednesday's show, was able to infuse it with subtlety and humor, as well as a few interesting cinematic moments, and keep to his formula of fifteen minute episodes with ease. It is well edited, and the use of location works almost to score the dialogue...
...improved cost of living formula that will add 1? per hour to wages for every .35 of a point increase in the consumer price index...
Workers will receive a three a per cent wage increase in each of the three years covered by the new contract, plus an additional 12 cents an hour in the first year. The contract also includes a new cost-of-living "escalator," a formula pioneered by the auto industry and based on the Consumer Price Index. During the most recent quarterly period, a worker received more than $20 a week over and above his base wage to compensate for the cost-of-living increase. Under the new formula, based on the same inflation conditions, this figure would rise...