Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...response to a student's question, DeJean said that the greatest indictment of journalists is that they have a "penchant for labeling things" and for trying to establish a formula for coverage in a very complicated world...
...humorous show in order to raise enough money to go to Bermuda. When, in desperation, they go on a mad rampage through the tired symbols of American cultural bankruptcy--Easy-Off, Mopeds, McDonald's hamburgers, pre-meds--they suddenly realize that they can do it without the formula. They can do it all with mirrors, through an intriguing process called "joke-cloning." They assemble in the dank, tomb-like basement of Harvard's newly-egalitarian Hasty Pudding Club, and, armed only with a dog-eared copy of "Boy's Life" and two pirated video-cassettes of outlawed Johnny Carson monologues...
...formula for being a Cabinet officer, he says. But he has a rule that many predecessors did not have. "You have to decide," he says. "Then do it. Don't let problems fester." For more than a decade the people at HEW hid in their bureaucratic maze, pushed problems aside, anything to avoid a clamoring public...
...rural guards; on election day, it dispatches some of the guards to the polls to maintain order but confines the rest to their barracks. The tribunal also oversees a highly refined campaign-financing system. Before the campaigning begins, the treasury distributes funds to the parties according to a formula based on the number of votes they got in the previous election; one of Carazo's triumphs was the fact that his Unity Party managed to win even though, at $353,000, its campaign kitty was one-seventh as large as the Liberation Party...
...Natural Resources Committee, has been struggling for more than a month to cobble together a compromise deal featuring phased-in decontrol and higher controlled prices in the meantime, but so far he has been unable to find majority support among his Senate colleagues on the joint committee for any formula...