Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government officials charged with holding down deficit spending, this all sounds like a familiar cry for a piece of the federal pie. Though Bowen argues that his plan will be self-financing, the Reagan budget cutters are concerned that Congress may start adding benefits to the basic formula. They also remember the original estimates that Government payments for kidney dialysis would cost only a couple of hundred million dollars; actual payments have grown to $2 billion...
...thought to offer little advantage and was never used in competition. Other syndicates made furious and fancy changes before the December race series. Stars & Stripes added a new mast, French Kiss new sails. USA changed to lighter nickel-cobalt rigging, and the weight saving, under the complicated 12-meter formula, was put back into the boat as ballast to counteract the rising winds and seas of the Australian summer...
Perhaps the following formula will be suitable. We will allow a few limited agreements for prepublication review, but only where the claim seems (1) to further a legitimate interest of the reviewer, and (2) to involve minor aspects of the text that do not interfere with the right of the authors to present their opinions and interpretations or to include material facts that they were entitled to present. To put it more generally, we see nothing wrong with allowing someone else to review a draft and edit it for matters of legitimate concern to the reviewer, if these matters...
...league maintains most of that original academic and athletic formula today, say officials at the member schools...
This is nothing new about Reagan. He's often let his hopes overwhelm his head, like when he insisted that inflation could be subdued, terrorists apprehended and punished, the tax system reformed. Yes, he missed on some big ones, like that crazy budget formula that has given us scary deficits. But throughout all of this, those who worship process were incredulous. Reagan never understood what he could...