Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city raises. This means that heavily taxed but not so needy cities would get more aid than impoverished communities whose tax base has steadily eroded. Comfortable Newton, Mass, (pop. 91,066), would get $1,527,668 v. only $821,964 for decaying New Bedford (pop. 101,777). "This formula doesn't do anything but put money where the wealth is," said Gibbons. When Ohio's Charles Vanik argued that the 25 largest cities in the U.S. would receive only one-quarter of the $5 billion, Connally bluntly confessed: "This is not a bill to relieve the urban crisis...
...hopes through some formula to achieve diplomatic ties with Peking without abandoning its commitments to Taiwan. But the issue will probably not be settled until both Mao Tse-tung, now 77, and Chiang Kaishek, 83, pass into history, along with their personal hatreds. Only then, in all likelihood, will an accommodation be possible. Harvard Sinologist John Fairbank suggests that the two governments might one day agree simultaneously to recognize Peking's "sovereignty" over the island and Taipei's "autonomy"-a device the British employed to engineer continued Chinese sovereignty over separatist Mongolia and Tibet after the fall...
...During an all-night meeting, the Foreign Ministers of the Six and British Chief Negotiator Geoffrey Rippon reached working arrangements on three major points concerning British entry. They were preferential treatment for Commonwealth sugar-producing countries, British adjustments to the EEC's higher-priced agricultural produce, and a formula for British contributions to the EEC's central budget. A number of other developments, however, helped ensure a hospitable climate for last week's summit meeting. One was West Germany's recent unilateral decision to allow the Deutsche Mark to float; the action, designed to combat West...
...House, the consultants whom Kissinger had commissioned to write the study now felt it especially necessary to get word to Nixon of what the second group was saying-which was now possible for the first time, because Kissinger and the NSC were already committed to forego the compromise policy formula and unfold the disagreements for the President...
...demand that more public money be spent on promotion and advertising, even at the expense of public education. Casino owners are pressing the government to allow slot machines and games like baccarat, which are presently banned. The real answer, of course, lies in a return to the pre-boom formula of courteous treatment and reasonable prices...