Word: formulaic
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Huffington and her colleagues are convinced they have hit on a formula that will roil the muddy middle of American politics, from Bushies on the one side to Gorites on the other. Their plan is media-savvy and politically astute. Concurrent with the party conventions, an assortment of activists, professional pols and show-biz celebrities with populist pretensions (from stand-ups like Bill Maher to superstars like Warren Beatty) will gather for four days of speechifying, seminar giving and satirical merrymaking, all on the indisputable assumption that the national press corps (and the public) will be so starved for spectacle...
...novel follows, in broad outline, the formula of the earlier books, rescuing Harry from some summer suffering at the home of the Dursleys, his dreadful Muggle (nonmagical human) relatives; transporting him and his two best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; and then exposing the hero to another threat from Lord Voldemort, the fearsome Dark wizard who murdered his parents but mysteriously failed to kill the one-year-old Harry at the same time...
Maya's resume glittered: number 10 in her high school class, an accomplished violinist and tennis star, summers at enrichment programs and volunteer work--elements in an imprecise formula of high scholastic and extracurricular achievement...
...take Bill Gates' rights away. He has the right to protect his ideas from the competition. There is a danger in having a monopoly in this business, but it is unfair to split up Microsoft. Just because there is competition does not mean that you give away the formula for your success. MICHAEL SCHMID Berlin...
...peace agreement. That leaves Israel's northernmost population centers vulnerable to a hostile enemy a stone's throw away - which is why thousands of Israeli civilians scurried southward rather than spend their nights in the bomb shelters of towns such as Qiryat Shmona - and Barak with no simple formula for guaranteeing their security...