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...exceptions (48 Hours, with its cinema verite immediacy, and the style-setting 60 Minutes), most of these shows seem interchangeable. Efforts to find gimmicks (a live studio audience on PrimeTime Live, for one regrettable example) have been mostly jettisoned in favor of the tried-and- true 60 Minutes formula. Before the March debut of Day One, executive producer Tom Yellin promised that the show would feature some longer stories and a mold-breaking format: "If our program is three pieces of the same length and then a light, short piece at the end, then we will have failed." After early...
...This is the formula," said Jan C. Larsen '89, marketing manager for the club. "We're developing the formula for what we're going to apply around the country...
...formula will not be as simple next year. Doyle says that recruiting the top high school players hasn't been easy ("many say that Harvard is just too good for them," Doyle says) and schools like Princeton, Yale and Trinity will rebound from their weak seasons...
...other councillors are looking to the state for help in recouping some of the lost property tax revenue. Wolf says she and Councillor Timothy J. Toomey are working on a proposal "that the [state] local aid formula include a factor for the amount of institutional land in the city...
Fundraisers use a formula to construct a multimillion dollar gift like the 35th reunion donation the whole class will make to the Harvard College Fund this year. First, the reunion gift chairs actively solicit two or three gifts of $1 million or more, which often requires cross-country travel to stroke and cajole prospective donors. With those gifts in hand, fundraisers nationwide go after donations in the $10,000 to $100,000 range. Other fundraisers, whose focus is participation, launch phone drives to pick up minor contributors...