Word: formulas
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While the debate continued, eight Western governments (plus Japan and Iran) met in Brussels and agreed to put up at least $70 million to rescue the Zaïrian government of President Mobutu Sese Seko from bankruptcy during the next three months under a stringent formula that British Foreign Secretary David Owen called "a monitorable plan for economic assistance." After some earlier protest, Mobutu now seemed ready to accept a few restrictive conditions on how he spends Zaïre's money. Mobutu is also expected to seek increased military assistance from the West. At week...
...founding document, the British North America Act of 1867, is still held by the British Parliament in Westminster. Reason: the critical passages refer to the division of powers between the federal government and Canada's ten powerful provinces, which have never been able to agree unanimously on a formula that would remove the last colonial trace from the country's political structure. Last week Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau moved to overcome the impasse. He presented Canadians with a series of constitutional reform proposals that, if accepted by Parliament and the provinces, would give the country complete self-mastery...
...stalwarts of his own party he had become a liberal anomaly. He knew that a hard core of party conservatives -30% or so-always opposed him on ideological grounds, making him vulnerable in a primary with a light turnout and a right-wing challenger. That was the formula for his defeat last week. In a race in which he did not even use television ads and spent little time away from his Senate duties-"Every poll and writer indicated that I would win handsomely," Case explains-he lost by 3,500 votes out of 233,000 to Bell, a relatively...
...While a Tiny Tim or a Judith Exner may flare and fade, others acquire a strange permanence-or its illusion, which is of course just as good. They have been transported into another medium where information and images are permanently (or for years, anyway) stored. In the formula of Historian Daniel Boorstin, they have "become well known for being well known." A classic of the category is, say, Elizabeth Taylor. Who, outside of her family and friends, would have the slightest interest in her were she not phosphorescent in her sheer famousness...
RUSSIAN THINKERS by Isaiah Berlin Viking; 312 pages; $14.95 "The fox knows many things," the Greek poet Archilochus wrote in one of his fragments. "The hedgehog knows one big thing." Sir Isaiah Berlin the political philosopher, used that enigmatic formula as the framework for one of the most luminous essays of the century, The Hedgehog and the Fox, a study of Tolstoy first published in 1951. Berlin divided the world's writers and thinkers into two categories. The hedgehogs (men like Dante, Plato, Lucretius, Pascal, Hegel, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche) are monists-they organize their universe into a central vision...