Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote, Muskie came out on top with 38% of the state delegates, Lindsay garnered 24% and McGovern 20%, with the remaining 18% uncommitted to any candidate. On the face of it, that seemed a reasonable outcome. But when the Democrats tried to apply the formula, they found themselves with a confusing set of fractions. Muskie's 38% of the state convention, applied to Arizona's 25 national delegates, came out to 91 delegates, creating a Solomonic dilemma. Similar mathematical puzzles plagued each camp. Three into two wouldn...
...quietly assembled in the Phoenix office of former Governor Sam Goddard. Each of the major presidential candidates had an emissary present. The result of the meeting was a Lindsay-Muskie alliance favoring a change of the convention rules to eliminate fractions in the distribution of delegates. Under the new formula, the delegates would be apportioned on a base of 24, leaving the 25th delegate slot to Arizona Democratic State Chairman Herbert Ely, who professed himself for the present to be uncommitted...
Commenting on the Malraux formula that China is seeking aid from the U.S., Fairbank said, "I don't know where he got the idea." Further, Fairbank said he felt it would be "patronizing" on the part of the U.S to approach China with eagerness to give...
...trying to reverse the trend. Subsidies to the nation's nine regional airlines-for retaining their 30 smallest outposts climbed from $36 million in 1969 to $59 million last year. In all, the subsidies average $65 for each traveler flying out of the 30 towns. Under a complex formula, the Civil Aeronautics Board now pays Hughes Airwest $466 for each of the few passengers that it carries out of Payette and nearby Ontario, Ore. The airline's highest regular fare is $85 for a trip from Phoenix to Puerto Vallarta in Mexico. Air-west is owned by Howard...
...week after President Nixon revealed his eight-point Viet Nam peace proposal, Maine Senator Edmund Muskie pronounced the plan unworkable and set out his own formula for getting the U.S. out of the war. Instead of Nixon's stipulations-a cease-fire throughout Indochina and new South Vietnamese elections-Muskie said that the U.S. should simply set a firm pull-out date in return for the safety of withdrawing forces and the release of American prisoners of war, leaving Saigon to work out its own accommodation with the Communists or else forgo further...