Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chief stumbling block to such a comprehensive trade agreement has been the Soviet Union's outstanding debt (originally about $11 billion) to the U.S. for Lend-Lease aid during World War II. In last week's discussions the Soviets agreed to a still undisclosed formula for repayment. Settlement of this debt would in turn permit the Export-Import Bank to finance the export of U.S. goods to the Soviet Union. It would also enable the Nixon Administration to ask Congress to grant the Russians most-favored nation trade privileges and credits, an important prerequisite for extensive trade...
...left Brazil for Britain to break into big-time European racing. Today, little more than three years later, Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi is the most successful race-car driver in the world. Last week he wheeled his Lotus around the 3.51-mile track at Monza, Italy, to win both the Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix and 1972's World Championship of Drivers.† At 25, he is the youngest driver ever to earn that title...
...Grand Prix racing, there is a tendency, sometimes justifiable, to credit victory to the car rather than the driver. Fittipaldi has proved that he can win even with autos that lack a racer's edge. Several days before the Monza race, a truck carrying his newest Lotus-Ford Formula 1 racer blew a tire and threw the car into a pepper patch and out of the race. Mechanics managed to patch up a leaking gas tank in Fittipaldi's back-up car scant minutes before the race began...
...which had been having steering and transmission problems) for the older back-up model. Though his choice had a balky engine, Fittipaldi won the 198-mile race by 1.18 seconds over Former World Champion Denis Hulme of New Zealand. The Italian triumph was Fittipaldi's fifth Formula 1 Grand Prix victory in ten races this season-a remarkable record for a driver only in his second full Grand Prix season. At that torrid pace, he may well be on his way to winning more Grand Prix races than anyone else in history. Jim Clark, the Scotsman who was killed...
...political if Sig and I or Phal or Gorden disputed anything, it would be whether the film was commercial or not. We learned something from him--he's been in the business 25 years you know. On the other hand we pulled him into come ideas that with his formula-ridden thinking he didn't think would work...