Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deadline to the gradual release of those P.O.W.s captured in South and North Viet Nam, but not those seized in Laos or Cambodia. To many critics of the Administration, it seemed that Nixon was missing a chance to end the impasse, since the Communists were at last offering a formula for dealing with the difficult prisoner question. Bruce tried for several weeks to pry more details of the plan out of the Communists and coax them into secret talks...
...distracted at home by TV, the kids and household chores. "The evening reader doesn't have all night," he says. "We're attempting to get the maximum amount of information into the minimum amount of space, while providing enough facts to satisfy an intelligent reader." The formula has pulled readers, but the product is uneven. On any given day Today can have the top coverage in town, but on a day-to-day basis it is undependable...
...formula seldom changed. At the end of every typical Frank Capra movie -Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, say, or Mr. Smith Goes to Washington-the hero, a generally shy but sturdy innocent, vanquished the villain, got the girl and reaffirmed once again the notion that all you really need in order to win out is spunk and some levelheaded determination...
...neither the birds nor the jets had appeared. But even if they never show, the people of New Guinea's primitive north coast are not likely to abandon the so-called "cargo cult" -a conviction that if only the dark-skinned people can hit on the magic formula, they can, without working, acquire all the wealth and possessions that seem concentrated in the white world. Officials are forever trying to explain how the world uses labor, capital and raw materials to acquire its "cargo," but that is all so much hocus-pocus to the tribesmen. As Sydney University Anthropologist...
...reduce the margin for error by both the Pentagon and its contractors, Packard has devised a procurement plan that follows the "milestone" formula, under which some projects are being developed in coordinated stages. Plans would call for the engine and airframe of a new plane to reach certain "milestones" of development within stated periods of time. Production, the final milestone, would be ordered only after many other testing and prototype stages have been successfully completed, each under a separate and relatively short-term contract. Other plans specifying even more discrete stages of the funding and development of new hardware...