Word: formulaic
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Genteel. The Texas Democratic Party long ago split into two bitterly feuding camps. Yarborough, 66, relies on a New Dealish grass-roots coalition of labor, liberals, East Texas blue-collar workers, blacks and Mexican Americans. This formula has kept him in the Senate for 13 years. Son of an East Texas farmer, the rural-oriented Yarborough is folksy and stubborn. Probably the South's most liberal Senator, he is a pariah among the state's conservative oil, banking and commercial interests. Recently he infuriated some of his backers by voting against the Supreme Court nomination of a Southerner...
...chair, a test tube, a loaf of bread ... art is a mathematician's formula. a philosopher's way of life. any man's dreams...
...NATO defense planners because of the new flexibility it gives the Kremlin. Present Soviet military doctrine warns that the imperialists are plotting to unleash a nuclear war and stresses that the Russians must be ready to deliver "a timely rebuff to the aggressors." Despite this purposely vague formula, the Russians reject the idea of starting an unprovoked nuclear war themselves. As Sovietologist Raymond L. Garthoff, now an adviser to the U.S. delegation at SALT, pointed out in his 1966 book, Soviet Military Policy: "Communist doctrine does inject unusually strong hostility and suspicion into Soviet policymaking, but Marxism-Leninism does...
...existing capital, and he considers much of the mood mere "chauvinism." Even so, he moved swiftly last month to block the sale of Denison Mines Ltd., Canada's biggest uranium producer, to a U.S.-controlled firm, and to limit foreigners to one-third ownership of uranium companies. That formula may become standard in many fields...
...Guevara Speaks, Merit Publishers, N.Y., p. 27): "We the underdeveloped are also those with monoculture, with the single product, with the market. A single product whose uncertain sale depends on a single market that imposes and fixes conditions that is the great formula for imperialist economic domination." Castro nevertheless continued to concentrate on producing 10 million tons of single crop sugar. The imperialist market is monopolized by the U. S. S. R. Export of previously thriving tobacco is almost nonexistent. In 1958 Cuba exported cattle to South America: but in 1967, 1968, and 1969 cattle had to be imported from...