Word: formulaically
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...sheer complexity of the formula prevents students from accurately gauging their honors status on a running basis. Only on the eve of graduation can the Registrar's Office authoritatively dispel their uncertainly, correcting what are frequently false expectations...
...formula prevents students ganging their honors status on a running of graduation can the Registrar's dispel their uncertainty, correcting also expectations...
...main selling point of the 76-year-old Filen's Basement is its "automatic markdown policy filen's buys overstock and irregulars form what it calls grit and glamorous stores, and then resells it at discount determined by a now famous formula. If the item sits on the rack for f12 days its initial prose will be cut by 25 percent. After six more days, the price is reduced 50 percent with in another six 75 percent. And if a piece of clothing doesn't sell by 30 days after it first hits the floor, Filen's gives...
...charm has always seemed to lie in its constancy: a neat and fixed formula of short stories, criticism, cartoons and articles, many of them serious, most of them current, all of them finely polished. Over the course of 60 years of independent proprietorship, The New Yorker won an enviably loyal audience along with an honored place on the country's cultural mantel. The magazine proved an accommodating haven for stylish writers as disparate as James Thurber and Isaac Bashevis Singer, E.B. White and J.D. Salinger. To many observers, the elegant weekly seemed not only steeped in tradition but nearly immutable...
...projectile. As he extends the trajectory, 20 students jab at their calculators, shouting the coordinates of the projectile's path. One student looks up from time to time from an Agatha Christie mystery to call out answers. A young girl interrupts the instructor. He has been applying a shortcut formula to the problem, and she points out that his solution will not work in every case...