Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Complex Formula. The approach he praised provides for a quota system in hiring. Rogers & Wells (senior partner: former Secretary of State William Rogers) has agreed, for instance, to observe a complex "120% formula" in making job offers over the next three years. The formula is based on the number of women in the graduating classes of the twelve law schools (among them: Yale, Harvard, the University of Virginia) at which the firm does almost all its interviewing. This year women make up 21.3% of those classes; as a result, at least 25.56% (120% times 21.3%) of all the job offers...
...superannuated sex--"Forget that I'm fifty cause you just got paid/Suck, baby, suck, give me your head/Before you start professing that you're knocking me dead." But his evocation of transience and loss is even more vivid on "Five Years," a song that uses a cliched sci-fi formula--the sudden end of the world--to ingenious effect...
Breast v. Bottle. Two years ago, a British journalist named Mike Muller first suggested publicly that powdered-formula manufacturers contributed to the death of Third World infants by hard-selling their products to people incapable of using them properly. In a 28-page pamphlet, Muller accused the industry of encouraging mothers to give up breast feeding, but added the qualification that other factors, such as working at a job, influence women to switch to bottle feeding...
...because hundreds of thousands of people get drunk on it and sometimes cause fatal accidents." Nestle officials insist that their advertising has always stressed, as one billboard in Nigeria puts it, that BREAST MILK IS BEST. Often, however, mothers themselves are undernourished and must supplement their own milk with formula. Nestlé was also a principal architect of an ethical code recently adopted by nine infant-food producers. The code requires that promotional materials in the Third World adequately educate illiterate consumers...
...there is not a trace of formula in the painting. Every millimeter of the royal face, rendered with baffling illusionistic skill, has been studied afresh...