Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been around here longer than four years and know that John Yovicsn was not U.S. ambassador to Israel, you might finally be able to understand the formula behind any Harvard football season...
...have failed. Because Nestles is a foreign-based company, it is not possible for Americans to force change by using shareholder resolutions or similar efforts, which might produce desirable alterations in the practices of U.S.-based corporations. Nestles is by far the largest of the sellers of manufactured infant formula to Third World countries, and currently has over one-third of the market. Evidence is clear that the Nestles boycott is worrying the company, and is beginning to result in policy changes. It is also obvious that Nestles is spending large sums to discredit those supporting the boycott...
...their infants and may even be lethal. Large sums of money have been spent on promotion to the public and to physicians. Many different tactics have been utilized, including the wide use of mass media, the issuing of free samples to new mothers to get them hooked onto formula feeding, the employment of nurses (so called "milk nurses") to persuade mothers to bottle feed, and what must be regarded as "pay offs" to influential physicians...
...swallowed by the cows or carried on backpacks. Already, an electronic entrepreneur named Marvin Marshall tours the dairylands of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio in a Ford Econoline van packed with IBM computer equipment. In two hours he will analyze a farmer's dairy cows and whip out a formula for feed calculated to permit each beast to produce the maximum amount of milk while remaining in glowing health...
...produced some of the least satisfactory paintings of his career?vague, disconnected blots and blurs, pretty as begonias, but otherwise unremarkable. But gradually the patches coalesced, the structure firmed. His breakthrough came in 1949, with a painting named Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red, which created the formula he would explore (with variations) for the last 20 years of his life: tiers of color in bands and oblongs, softly glowing, stacked up on the canvas. Within this format, Rothko for the next dozen or so years produced one of the most articulate, subtle and prolonged meditations on color...