Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the other Tandem shows, the gags on Good Times are often slickly pleasingly crafted. But the occasional references to sociologically sober matters seem to spring less from conscience than from a need to create product identity. That is no less a formula than anyone else's formula-and no less tiresome...
When the proposal was submitted, then City Manager John H. Corcoran told the council that "one of the academic institutions [Harvard or MIT] is amenable to our formula but the other is still reluctant to enter into the agreement...
HARVARD'S reasons for opposing the plan surfaced shortly thereafter. Since MIT had acquired much of its land since 1928 its payments would not drastically increase with the new formula, but Harvard's would have immediately quadrupled. Harvard was willing to talk, Donald C. Moulton, Harvard coordinator for community affairs, said, but the square-foot basis was an arbitrary method of determining in lieu of tax payments. "We're not legally obligated to make the payments, but we recognize the services the city provides Harvard," he added...
...same time the University also rejected the bill for about $400,000 that the city had submitted in October 1972 on the total square foot formula. Moulton said then that even though Harvard would now pay a figure comparable to the one arrived at by the square footage calculation, they would not make payments that were based on a specific formula...
...would build up reserve stocks of petroleum and grains. The agency would probably sell those stocks to hard-up nations if supplies got tight or market prices prohibitively high. Jobert's plan could help answer U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim's call for an "overall and global" formula to give raw-materials-producing nations a fair price for their products without bankrupting their customers. But careful evaluation of serious plans is not likely to occur in the highly charged political atmosphere of the special session...