Word: formulaic
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Maintaining that "no Arab must fear Geneva," Sadat has been amenable to almost every reasonable formula proposed for getting the parties involved back to Geneva. Although Syria balked, Egypt readily endorsed, with minor reservations, the working paper that Carter and Vance negotiated with Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan between U.N. meetings in New York last month. In essence, this formula called for a united Arab delegation containing some Palestinian representation, but no known members of the P.L.O. There would be specific negotiations between six subgroups?Israel and Egypt, for example, or Israel and Syria?on the basis of U.N. Resolutions...
...down their Indian plants rather than meet demands for some degree of Indian ownership. One company under pressure: Coca-Cola, which has all but stopped making Coke in India. The company had been ready to reach an agreement on mixed ownership, but rejected India's demand for the formula for Coke's syrup, a secret that is supposedly locked in a Georgia bank vault and known to only ten people in the world...
...South Africa. One way or another, Ian Smith's Rhodesia, where blacks outnumber whites 22 to 1, is destined for majority rule. So is Namibia (South West Africa), the huge, mineral-rich territory that South Africa has governed (originally under a 1920 League of Nations mandate), although an independence formula is still to be agreed upon by the territory's various political groups, including the militant South West Africa People's Organization...
...putting together promotion kits, trying to pour some advertising dollars into the car. While top-level teams have no problems selling and space on their cars (witness the E-Z Wider car of two seasons ago), it may be difficult to sell potential advertisers because of the obscurity of Formula Ford races. The two entrepreneurs will also seek patrons wherever possible. Medenica's commitment to the effort is complete--he says he decided to attend Business. School in order to make enough money to keep racing. The search for sponsorship, like almost everything else in the sport, will be time...
Just where the team is heading remains unclear. If they continue to win they will attract attention and consider a move up in class to Formula Vee, or, if they can afford it, they might attempt to race in European Formula Three. "Five years ago every up-and-coming road racer wanted to go to Europe, but now the important thing is to do as well as you can, wherever you are," Medenica says...