Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...formula, when candidate Ford went to New Hampshire on a campaign trip last weekend, his press secretary Ron Nessen became a split personality, his traveling expenses listed under electioneering. AT&T, which furnishes the press phone car for the President, discovered Nessen's new definition and threw him out of the car because the corporation's executives feared this service would be counted as an illegal political contribution. Ma Bell is touchy about such things these days...
...position is that as long as the P.L.O. does not accept U.N. Resolutions 242 and 338 [which recognize Israel's right to exist], the U.S. will oppose negotiations with the P.L.O. Since the P.L.O. has not given the slightest hint that they are ready to accept the U.S. formula, they are out of the negotiations from the point of view of both Israel...
PERLMUTTER: I am disturbed by reading what [P.L.O. "Foreign Minister"] Farouk Kaddoumi said: "I am sure that we can find a formula for peaceful coexistence, but this Zionist ghetto of Israel must be destroyed." Will you say that the Zionist state of Israel should exist, and you should negotiate with it like Egypt negotiated with it? I would agree with that, if it is constructive...
With training techniques and equipment ever more sophisticated and timing more exact, alpine skiing today resembles Formula One auto racing: runs get faster and the risks bigger. Victory or defeat depends on a few hundredths of a second. This season alone two skiers have crashed to death in international competition. Fierce national rivalry, especially in Europe, and a multimillion-dollar ski industry have turned top skiers into human missiles, whose streamlining is tested in wind tunnels. The choice of wax for polyethylene ski bottoms before each run is a state secret. Innsbruck may produce top speeds of nearly 85 m.p.h...
When Slack was managing Bristol to a Double A championship at the end of last season, he "never hesitated to bring him in--if it's a 2-2 ball game, or 3-3--and that'll tell you how good he is." The formula for these things is usually having two good back-to-back years in the minors. If Brayton performs well for Bristol this year--or for Pawtucket, where he could go in mid-season--then he's ready for the big leagues...