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City Councillor William H. Walsh, the council's most vocal critic of rent control, said HRE uses "a very mysterious formula" to determine the increases and that he has repeatedly "urged the rent control board to look into the situation...
Supposedly, Hirsch weeded out specialized entries by using a formula of selecting only events, people or things that major newspapers would refer to without a definition. (Under that rationale, many of Hirsch's entries are extremely questionable.) The science entries, compiled by Trefil, are exempt from this qualification, since "there is little broad knowledge of science even among educated people." Granted, but does one need to know what thermal inversion is in order to function as a literate member of society? Similarly, would a science major feel a driving need to recognize that John Constable was an artist...
Reagan fueled the recovery on a strange formula, a mixture of tax cuts and increases in government spending. As Lloyd Bentsen pointed out in his debate with Dan Quayle, it easy to give the appearance of prosperity when you're writing hot checks. When the creditors come to collect on the country's $1.8 trillion deficit, Reagan will not be around to answer the door...
...number of communities interested in trying Habitat's formula has grown most strikingly in recent years. There were just eleven Habitat affiliates in the U.S. in 1980; there were 171 by 1986. This year there are 324 affiliates, ranging in size from the one in New York City to one in Coahoma, Miss. (pop. 351), which plans to replace the town's entire housing stock. There are 38 college chapters and 68 Habitat affiliates overseas. All told, 4,000 homes have been built since 1976. Boasts Fuller: "It's clear to me that we are seeing the birth...
...Police link 60 percent of all homicides to the drug trade. Barry cannot be effective in fighting drugs if he uses them, or if most people believe he is using them. In a city with scores of open-air drug markets, a mayor tainted by drugs is a sure formula for a booming narcotics business...