Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shamir cannot afford to worry about a collision with the U.S. Administration when his own political future is so shaky. Shamir has staked his reputation on a concise formula: no land for peace. He has no sympathy for Bush's concern that an aid package to Israel at this time would be interpreted by Arabs as a tacit endorsement of Jerusalem's policy of building Jewish settlements in the occupied territories. Quite the contrary, Shamir fears that if he capitulates to Bush and freezes construction of the Jewish settlements, the move might signal that a question mark hangs over...
...mind in the White House or the Vatican; Yeltsin is the blunt- spoken man of the people, comfortable mixing with workers on a shop floor. The fact that the power balance has shifted in Yeltsin's favor and made Gorbachev the junior partner does not change the basic formula...
Scandal-plagued corporations and government agencies have a surefire formula for riding out the storm: Find someone with an unimpeachable reputation to whip the place back into shape. Beleaguered Salomon Brothers turned to superinvestor Warren Buffet. A few other high-profile "fixers...
What the public truly wants is, of course, impossible to fathom -- especially when it is as diverse as the 10 million people who have seen the Big Three on Broadway or the 72.5 million who have attended worldwide. Mackintosh says, "I have no formula. Any man is lucky to be involved in one major success in a lifetime. To be involved in four defies explanation." One clear lesson does emerge. Certain theatrical tastes may be passe, certain critics disgruntled. For all the doomsaying about the Fabulous Invalid, the joy of theatergoing -- to the right show, done in the right...
...true, Jan discovers. Using her formidable research skills, she digs up references to Ressler in 1958, including a small photograph in LIFE with the caption "Dr. Stuart Ressler: one of the new breed who will help uncover the formula for human life." And then she is taken to meet Ressler himself, at a nearby renovated warehouse where he and Todd, an art-history graduate student stalled on his dissertation, work the night shift for a computer billing outfit...