Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Answering the questions is no easy assignment, as the sometimes floundering efforts of official Washington demonstrate. The activist consensus of the cold war, which made every foot of turf on earth a prize to be won or lost, has evaporated. At the same time the venerable formula that U.S. forces are to be used to protect vital interests and key allies seems less than adequate to guide the country in a violent world of fluctuating priorities. Will America's $260 billion-a-year military machine be sent into action to fight only aggressors like North Korea, Iran or Iraq...
...politics, voters are having second thoughts about the Republican revolution that was ushered in just last year. The poll results underscored the results of last week's elections, where Democrats held ground in places they had lost badly in recent years. In Kentucky, where Clinton bashing was a foolproof formula in the '94 congressional races, it didn't work for G.O.P. gubernatorial candidate Larry Forgy. The winner was Democratic Lieutenant Governor Paul Patton, who turned the tables and made Newt Gingrich the boogeyman in his campaign. In Virginia, Republicans were stopped just short of gaining control of the state legislature...
...formula is something to worry about when people need exceptions." Reardon says...
...complicated formula is used to determine a quota (usually about 10 percent of the vote). Candidates who receive that number of votes or more are declared officially elected...
Lucky Jim confirmed Amis' ability to evoke such reactions in print. It also established the author's basic comic strategy: a beleaguered hero tries to behave inoffensively among people whose self-centered behavior drives him privately mad. This formula still sparkled in The Russian Girl (1994), in which a husband meditates on his wife's odd and affected accent: "After a time he had stopped noticing it at all more than a couple of times a day, and for years had given up speculating what speech-sounds she might make if, for example, he were to creep up behind...