Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Atoms-and-Coal Formula...
Face-Saving Formula. Only last year politicians had literally spat in each other's faces. This time, perhaps because they realize that time may be running out, the atmosphere was better: Catholic Politician Paddy Devlin was even seen walking with his arm on the shoulder of Northern Ireland's most vociferous apostle of Protestant supremacy, the Rev. Ian Paisley. But atmosphere is one thing, and substance another. The Protestant Loyalists offered to let Catholics serve as chairmen of several key legislative committees, but they maintained that Catholics could not rightly lay claim to any Cabinet posts. The largely...
...around these problems partly through strong writing and heavy acting power, but also because the genre was newer then. More recently, Chinatown combined a script of elegant complexity with the sort of terse romanticism that made the plot move with comparative ease. The Drowning Pool can boast only the formula without the chemistry-plus Paul Newman, reviving his Harper character of some ten years back...
Given the magnitude of the policy reversal, Wilson and Healey had little to lose by compromising on enforcement at this time. The formula saved face for Employment Secretary Michael Foot, the unions' staunchest defender in the Cabinet, who during the last election campaign flatly committed himself to quit if compulsory wage controls were enforced. There were fears that a Foot resignation would trigger the fall of the Wilson Cabinet. Not only would leftist Energy Secretary Anthony Wedgwood Benn have had little choice but to follow suit; the unions would have withdrawn their support from the government's program...
...nine parliamentary blocs, he managed the job in only five weeks. The country might be falling apart around them, but Lebanon's aging political leaders-including President Suleiman Franjieh, 65-painstakingly haggled and bargained their way through scores of meetings. In the end, they accepted a compromise formula that had been proposed at least three weeks earlier: an interim six-member Cabinet that excludes both the extreme right and the extreme left, but includes representatives of the country's major religious groups...