Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...principal gauge by which the Nixon presidency is measured in the future. For an essentially conservative President, he has shown surprising willingness to embrace innovation. The Administration's drastic new plan for overhauling foreign aid is the latest example. Taken together, the reform proposals represent a remarkable formula for progress, and if they came to fruition would mark the Nixon era as one that instituted major changes on the American scene. Nothing much has happened yet, but the plans can be credited at least with stimulating public discussion, an inevitable first step toward acceptance...
...escaped controversy, though it has been of a different kind from what the breweries might have expected. Early this month Stokely-Van Camp Inc. asked a federal court to enjoin Pittsburgh Brewing from selling Hop 'n Gator, claiming that the drink's name-and the taste and formula of the part that is not beer -violate Stokely's trademark right on Gatorade...
...refusing to judge liberalism in terms of the ideas it espouses and inscribes in its constitutions, and in demanding that these ideas be compared to the prevailing relations in a liberal state, Marx is providing... a formula for the concrete study of society which cannot be refuted by idealist arguments... To understand and penetrate a society one has to penetrate its basic structure to the human bond upon which it is built...
...formula of Out of My League has been repeated, with varying degrees of success, in every other Plimpton venture into Mittydom. It is always the comic-terror story of the amateur trying his hand at a craft not his own and, without exception, suffering defeat and humiliation when he attempts to master it. "I think he has an idea that there's a kind of mystery one can get to, a really professional mystery of an altogether exciting kind," says Robert Silvers, editor of the New York Review of Books and one of Plimpton's closest friends...
...heart of the dispute are Pergamon's profits. Under the accounting formula used by Maxwell, Pergamon had 1968 pretax profits of $5.04 million. But a special audit by Price Waterhouse, published two weeks ago, placed 1968 profits at only $1.2 million and Pergamon's year-end assets at $10.8 million rather than the $16.9 million originally reported...