Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Joey" departs from the stock formula for gangster shows. It's a strikingly bold and saucy trollop of a play, one that must have titillated or even shocked 1940s audiences. Lorenz Hart's lyrics do not play coy. Vera warbles of Joey in the classic song, "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," that...
...withdraw their operations from South Africa, a resolution asking Kodak to stop sales of certain kinds of photographic equipment to the South African government, a resolution calling on Exxon not to expand its South African operations, a resolution calling on Bristol Meyers to change its Third World infant formula marketing practices, resolutions prohibiting ex-government officials from taking jobs with General Electric and several other companies, and resolutions on redlining, political contributions, and journalistic practices...
...doctor of theology degree from Erlangen University, and for years was a Lutheran pastor at St. Jacobi Church in Hamburg. Since 1971 he has preached that the existence of a personal God is "a comforting invention of human beings." Schulz also wrote a book, Is God a Mathematical Formula?, and, in answer to the title question, he answered no but declared that God emanates somehow from "physical and chemical processes." Prayer? Mere "self-reflection." Life after death? Wishful thinking. Jesus? A normal man with good things to say who was later glorified into the Son of God by early Christians...
Under Cambridge's rent control law, landlords seeking rent increases must have them approved by the city's rent control board, which usually relies on a formula based on upward adjustments of 1967 rents...
...climb and fall at similar rates but that expenditures are easier to track.) The failure of a hospital covered by the program to meet this goal would trigger a penalizing mechanism so convoluted that administrators claim it would be a bureaucratic nightmare-and they have a point. Basically, the formula would restrict the amount of money that a hospital could collect from patients. A hospital's revenues might be reduced by as much as 2%, a sharp decline for an institution that operates on narrow margins...