Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basic "I wish" formula, Koch had the children add colors, noises, even comic-book characters...
...Allegiance to the Flag. Some of the young are beginning to examine its wording; one phrase has troubled them. Recently, the senior class president of the Eastchester, N.Y., Senior High School, along with other students and the school's principal, organized a petition campaign to have the formula changed to read "one nation under God, indivisible, seeking liberty and justice...
...there is the perennial problem of resource allocation to the various shops. "We will strive for equity within the formula of resource allocation according to service load in the school," said Sizer...
...work closely with you in an effort to arrive at a bill which will deal with all problems of political campaigns." To the unwary, the statement could be read as a commitment. But as White House sources admitted, the President had only agreed to "cooperate" in seeking a new formula. There was no personal pledge to get new legislation through...
...only was riverrun reputed to be his most ambitions work yet (befitting the Joycean title quote), but its subject matter jibed with our own quasi-idyllic mood. Korty, if anyone, would be able to give us what we thought we wanted, which wasn't a rigid truth or comforting formula, but an impregnable human warmth and beauty...