Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most post-season analyses harp on several common elements. A young player did not perform up to potential, the reliable veteran came up lame, it was a cold spring training, the momentum was missing, and of course, the manager did not establish a good rapport with his players. This formula will work for a Red Sox post-mortem and is guaranteed to make you a hit at any cocktail party...
Friedenthal said that the California Court was very careful not to destroy the legality of minority programs in general. Race cannot enter into the admissions formula, but a set of criteria can be formulated to provide a "reasonable number of various minorities, given a large enough applicant pool...
...today than seemed conceivable a decade ago. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was the critical turning point. Jimmy Carter has called it the most important political event of his lifetime. Spurred through a divided Congress by President Lyndon Johnson of Texas, the act, under a complex voter-participation formula, gave federal authorities the power to supervise, in most Southern states, "any voting qualifications, or prerequisites to voting, or standard, practices of procedure with respect to voting...
...Faculty came as no great surprise. A budget analyst who received a Stanford MBA this spring (after working several years in the Radcliffe career planning office and in what is now the Office of Graduate Career Planning). Spence has not yet been introduced to Collier's crowding formula. She says she understands it is so complicated no one was willing to explain it before they were sure she would take...
...Chaucer of The Canterbury Tales appears only in the author's purloined formula: toss some interesting strangers together and stir. The plot is launched by English Professor Rigby Short, whose opera libretto, $4000, is about to be performed at a large Midwestern university. The locale resembles the University of Iowa, where Bourjaily has been associated with the writers' workshop for the past 16 years. (In 1969 an opera for which he wrote the libretto, $4000, was staged there.) The novel's cast is composed of a gaggle of graduate students, some local singers and several professionals from...