Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main labor groups that bargained with aerospace employers, described as "cynical" the board's decision to hold the line on workers employed by a depressed industry. But he also acknowledged its efficacy by pointedly omitting any mention of a strike. Public members suggested a compromise formula that would trim the first-year wage boost to 8.3% but increase the second-year raise from 3% to about 7%. That seemed equitable enough, but labor members, still smarting from their first real defeat on the board, were in no mood to take advice. Said U.A.W. Official Pat Greathouse: "Right...
...quantity of his output are astonishing, even more so is the quality of his work. His seventy-fifth novel is as fresh and as funny as his fiftieth, or his first, and not very different from either. Wodehouse has been lucky and talented enough to have found a formula for comedy that works; and he has been wise enough not to deviate from that formula in well over half a century of writing...
...effect on individual publications would be uneven. The new second-class rates are set by the piece in a complicated formula that takes into account mailing distance as well as weight. Weeklies would be hit harder than monthlies because of greater mailing frequency, and large-circulation weeklies would be hit harder still because of their great volume. Time Inc., as the nation's largest magazine publisher (TIME, LIFE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, FORTUNE), would suffer the biggest second-class boost of all-from $15.4 million to $42.4 million, based on 1970 circulation levels. That increase of $27 million substantially exceeds what...
Alas, too true. But these days, bad news arrives thicker and faster than the mind can follow, or bear to contemplate. Often it seems that all one can muster in response is, at best, some variation on Hamlet's simple formula for mourning-"Absent thee from felicity awhile"-or at worst, numb weariness and futility...
...would be exempt under the Talmadge plan; the Nixon proposals exempt mothers whose children are three or under. Included in earlier Talmadge amendments to a tax bill was an incentive plan for businesses to hire welfare trainees; last week's amendments provide a new funding formula for on-the-job training. The new law will take 18 months to set up and, at that, is expected to increase the number of recipients registered for workfare by no more than...