Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were even some gestures to the rich and to corporations. The top tax rate on earned income would go down to 48%, from the present 50% to 70% (it varies according to a complex formula). Companies would keep the tax credit they now get for investing in new machinery-a provision of tax law that McGovern had earlier attacked-though the credit in effect might eventually be halved from the present 7%. For fiscal conservatives, there was a promise to name cautious House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills as Secretary of the Treasury. For blue-collar workers, there...
McGovern continued insistently if not very optimistically to challenge Nixon to come forth from the political sanctuary of the White House and debate the issues. It was probably a forlorn hope. As McGovern tried to flush Nixon out, the President remained intent on his own formula for reelection, which includes working at intricate Viet Nam scenarios. One of them, Nixon hopes, might yet make good the G.O.P. promise that by November, the issue of Viet Nam will have receded into relative insignificance...
...release of American prisoners of war, because that would not settle the central question-control of South Viet Nam following a ceasefire. Hanoi wants Washington to get rid of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu as a condition for a settlement. Washington in turn is seeking a formula that would permit the U.S. to withdraw militarily while leaving the political settlement to Saigon and Hanoi. In other words, the U.S. would be willing to leave things so that Hanoi has a fair chance of getting rid of Thieu by itself-without, however, the U.S.'s doing the North...
...With the help of a formula known as the Stefan-Boltzmann fourth-power law for radiation...
...cynical view of making it in U.S. business holds that success depends "not on what you know but on whom you know." According to an exclusive story broken last week by the Wall Street Journal, a West Coast operator named Jack P. Burke played that formula to the hilt. Burke's longtime friendship with Otis Chandler, his teammate on the Stanford University track squad (class of '50) and the crown prince of one of California's reigning families, had a good deal to do with his highflying fortunes in the oil business. Burke not only got Chandler...