Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a magic formula. I don't want big political parties dominating the life of our country either. I want two parties, but I don't want them so powerful that they take over the political arena...
...further recent irritation in Peruvian-Chilean relations has been the two countries' inability to agree on a formula for giving the Bolivians the access to the sea they lost when, as an ally of Peru, they were also defeated in the War of the Pacific. Chile recently offered to cede a strip along its border with Peru to Bolivia as a corridor to the sea. But Peru objected and invoked its right, obtained under a 1929 treaty, to veto any further change in status of territory that had once belonged to it. One reason for its objection is that...
...united or separated, the French left takes its reform proposals seriously. It does not, like a large segment of the conservative block, bounce from one ad hoc formula to the next, backing the political leader who momentarily seems to project the most appealing image. (The support for Chirac provides one more instance of this inconstancy...
...proposals will be forthcoming in 1977. I haven't decided on the specific formula, but there would be both federal and state participation...
Kingsley Amis' twelfth novel is set in the now (1976) but hardly the here. Amis has rejiggered the present according to a formula beloved by armchair historians and sore losers: What would have happened if? In the case of The Alteration, the "if is the Reformation: it did not happen. Instead, Martin Luther accepted a compromise with the Roman