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...budget surplus, there will be a ratepayer's increase too, as an emergency 9 percent rate hike allowed utilities will become permanent. But for residential customers, there's a conservation component - rates would go up only if they used 30 percent more power than "baseline" levels set by a formula that takes into account regional differences in climate and energy...
...acknowledge some form of wrongdoing; the issue was what. Ray wanted him to admit that he had lied under oath when he denied having had sexual relations with Lewinsky; at the meeting, Clinton wouldn't budge. The lawyers worked on language over the next two weeks, arriving at a formula in which Clinton admitted for the first time to giving false testimony under oath. By avoiding the word "knowingly," the President skirted the legal definition of perjury. With that breakthrough, the deal came together...
Serious troubles started this past fall semester when Rice's Athletics Director asked that KTRU double the number of baseball and women's basketball games it broadcasts. The Advisory Committee eventually decided on a formula halfway between the status quo and the proposal. Simultaneously, two Rice DJs lodged a public protest. The two arrived for their punk-ska shift on one day in late November and discovered that a women's basketball game had not yet ended. Angry, the two decided to broadcast their show right over the basketball broadcast stream...
...becoming the most successful foreign film to hit the U.S. That victory remains both a blessing and a curse for the Chinese film industry: it raised awareness of Asian films tenfold in the West, but has compelled the region's filmmakers to try to duplicate Lee's magic formula...
...will develop resistance to the next generation of miracle drugs just as they did in the past. How fast they do so is in large part up to us. With antibiotics, too little is not a good thing, observes Morse, and neither is too much. Unless we devise a formula that is just right, he predicts, we will forever be frantically racing to catch up with our nimbler microbial foes...