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...remember all kinds of people, not just Republicans -- Democrats, friends, others -- that would talk to me about a UDAG. The first thing I'd tell them is, "Look, these are decided on a formula basis. I can't guarantee how it's going to come out." However, because of the mod-rehab program's discretionary nature, there was a possibility of someone personally influencing a decision...
...coursewide curve is being loosened to make it comparable with other Core classes, and professors have developed a new formula to lessen grade competition within individual sections, according to Assistant Professor of Economics Douglas W. Elmendorf, who teaches the class with Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein...
According to the previously set-up formula, activist Hoffman's self-induced end should have sounded the death knell for the generations' hopes. The beacon of idealism, the one who, unlike so many others, never sold out, had admited defeat and in a fit of exhaustion slid into death's enticing embrace...
...said, 'You've missed an important point. It is true no one comes out to see us. But when we go into town, we're much more careful, and we schedule ourselves much more efficiently than otherwise would be the case.' He proceeded to sketch out a formula for cutting yourself off from any unplanned encounter." And the unplanned encounter, Whyte concludes, is one of the joys of urban life: "You hear the point you didn't expect to hear...
...drug company. The friendly merger would be the largest so far in the current race to create globe-spanning pharmaceutical giants. The new company, with headquarters in Manhattan, would bring together such products as Bristol-Myers' Bufferin painkiller and Windex glass cleaner with Squibb's Capoten, a leading prescription formula for heart ailments...