Word: formula
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...September, the Civil Aeronauties Board changed the formula for determining air fares to a system based on rate per miles travelled, which went into effect October 1. The rate per mile goes down as the number of miles covered rises. Therefore, under the new system, it costs two dollars less than under the previous system to fly from Boston to San Francisco, but five dollars more to fly from Boston to Washington...
...status. Jack Kennedy nightcapped his Inaugural at the home of Columnist Joseph Alsop; Lyndon Johnson in the early days regularly called in James Reston of the New York Times for private chats and personally leaked stories to Drew Pearson. Richard Nixon has changed all that. He follows a methodical formula for the impartial treatment of members of the Washington press corps: he is equally remote from all of them. He grants no private interviews, and, until two weeks ago, had held no public news conference since the middle of June. Under orders and by inclination, Nixon's White House...
...unit difference between the two figures is mostly due to different calculations of the amount of "doubling-up" (several students living in the same unit). The Design School group used a formula to estimate this, while the Planning Office mapped addresses of off-campus Harvard personnel...
...drawn along proportional lines. That is, they suggested that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences get the highest number of representatives because it was the largest school, and that other schools get fewer representatives with the exact number depending on their relative size, President Pusey sought to simplify this formula by granting the graduate schools equal representation while still giving the School of Arts and Sciences a slightly larger representation...
Literature or Revelation. The authors faced formidable problems trying to meet the Supreme Court's requirements and at the same time answer serious theological objections. Though the Clark formula is clear, critics have argued that objectivity is difficult to realize in practice. Most religion courses, Jews maintain, are bound to reflect a Christian bias in what is historically a Christian society. Other critics insist that true impartiality, in any event, distorts the real nature of religion as a sense of the ultimate. "Reading the Bible as literature rather than as revelation," says Rabbi Eugene Borowitz of Hebrew Union College...