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...Democrat's formula for "New Liberalism...
...ease some of the cutbacks with expanded benefits of its own. He adds, though, that students receiving aid from the GSL program "should really be all right as things stand now." Any student whose family can show a "demonstrated need"--as calculated by a complicated Department of Education formula (or by the college's formula if the student receives aid directly from the school)--will qualify...
...Arabia appeared about to force its moderate pricing policy on the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. But then, after a week of frantic negotiations behind closed doors in Geneva's luxurious Intercontinental Hotel, the oil ministers broke up in deadlock. Instead of agreeing to a compromise formula that would have reunified OPEC's crazy quilt of prices, which range from a low of $32 per bbl. to a high of $40 per bbl., they left the world's oil game still bedeviled and in disarray...
...formula was fiercely opposed by some clubs, especially those who were within striking distance of divisional leaders. One unfortunate possibility: a club could amass the best overall record and be shut out of the playoffs because it did not win either half. Some baseball people also fear that teams already guaranteed berths in the playoffs will not play their best in the "second" season. As Shortstop Larry Bowa of the Phillies put it, "What's the incentive?" More disturbing, a first-half winning team could try to dictate its opponent in the playoffs. If the Yankees, say, preferred...
...Ford song reflected the self-absorption of the '70s. Ginny Redington wrote the quintessential "me"-decade song in 1975 for McDonald's hamburgers: "You, you're the one ..." Today, says Redington, "it's the exact antithesis. Nationalism is a success formula. Everything is America. 'Clean your face, America.' 'Brush your teeth, America...