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...meaning when enough special- interest groups rise in rebellion against the threatened cuts--there will occur, as if by magic, what former Budget Director David Stockman used to call "the big fix." This comes when everybody reluctantly agrees to both some budget cuts and some tax increases. One formula being mentioned is known as 20-20-20, meaning $20 billion in new taxes and $20 billion less for both military and nonmilitary spending...
...only classify as Bigfoot status. In conjunction with 8 to 11 guru Norman Lear, Yorkin developed, as his press release so modestly proclaims, a string of record breaking hits: "Sanford and Son," "Maude," "Good Times," "Diff'rent Strokes" and "Archie Bunker's Place." Commercial triumphs all, these Yorkin-Lear formula sit-coms were, in retrospect, surprisingly devoid of the socially relevant subject matter so current in many current series...
...that is Roby's formula for success, the cagers seem destined for greatness...
...researchers concluded that the acidity of the soft drink had nothing to do with its sperm-bashing power. Dr. Joseph A. Hill, clinical instructor and research fellow, one of the three doctors who undertook the study, said Coke's spermicidal effect could be attributed to its secret formula...
House masters are given an allowance from the College, but College administrators declined to disclose the formula for the allotment. Some houses get ocassional grants from alumni to help improve the house. For example, Leverett redecorated its house grill last year with an anonymous alumni contribution of $1000. But the College attempts to make up for those alumni extras in allocating masters' budgets, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 said. Nevertheless, the balancing is still an imprecise thing...