Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magazine's sanguine postulate that man can manage his destiny that has made it so resoundingly popular. Brevity, of course, is its other asset. Its assumption that even War and Peace could be cut to a few hours' reading brought sneers from the sophisticated, but the formula has proved useful and durable. The Digest now sells 18 million copies a month in the U.S. and 12 million abroad in 13 languages...
After one disastrous attempt at a TV special in 1968-taped but never shown-Flip and his manager, Monte Kay, found the successful formula for his famous NBC special in 1969, which introduced Geraldine as an airline stewardess in a sketch with Jonathan Winters' gray-haired Maude Frickert. The network offered him his own show the next year, and he was off and away. When you're hot, you really are hot. His net income is well upward of $1,000,000 a year. This comes mainly from earnings from his show and royalties from his four comedy...
...Historic Formula. The following day, on the first-floor balcony of Christianborg Palace in Copenhagen, Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag intoned the news three times, according to historic formula: "King Frederik IX is dead. Long live Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II." The new Queen of Denmark is also the Countess of Monpezat since her marriage in 1967 to French Count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat, who changed his name to Henrik and became a Danish prince. They have two sons, Prince Frederik, 3, and Prince Joachim...
Last week the 17-month-old government of Premier Emilio Colombo toppled in another such crisis-one, moreover, that raised the question of how much longer the center-left coalition formula could survive at a time when a deep recession is exacerbating all of Italy's social ills. The crisis was provoked by the tiny but influential Republican Party, which withdrew its support to protest what it viewed as irresponsible and inflationary government spending. Unwilling or unable to change course to meet the Republicans' demands, the other parties in the coalition-the Socialists, Social Democrats and Christian Democrats...
Stock Surge. That formula has worked so well that since 1966, MGIC's profit after tax has quadrupled, to $16 million, and given the company's stock a rather magical record on Wall Street. Taking into account several stock splits, a MGIC share that sold for 320 in 1956 closed 1971 at $89.25 on the New York Stock Exchange; $43.50 of the rise came last year alone. But building that kind of success was no easy task...