Word: formula
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Emphasizing his own commitment to the SALT process, Kissinger explained that a major purpose of the arms control effort is to find a formula that preserves each superpower's "capacity to retaliate" against a nuclear strike, "thereby reducing the incentive and capacity for surprise attack." It is not enough simply to advocate a reduction in atomic arms, he added. Concern for national security requires building a huge weapons arsenal while the efforts are under way to build an enduring peace. Said he: "How to avoid nuclear war without succumbing to nuclear blackmail-this is the overwhelming problem...
...week's end the government and Kurdish representatives had worked out an agreement in principle. In a formula that is likely to be followed in other Kurdish towns, the local provisional council in Marivan would be permitted to decide local matters. The hated Pasdaran were to be withdrawn, and the regular army would assume control until a local police force could be established...
...Kuwaitis, with U.S. encouragement, are trying to find a new formula that would both reaffirm the U.N.'s landmark Resolution 242 of 1967, which implicitly affirms Israel's right to exist, and in addition endorse the Palestinians' legitimate political rights. The Arabs, and the Administration as well, hope that such a formulation might at last allow the P.L.O. to at least tacitly recognize Israel as a bona fide state. This in turn would enable Washington to drop its longstanding boycott of the P.L.O. and open a direct dialogue with it. The Administration's first goal then...
...they too had been written in. "Now the audience believed that Gracie believed that story," says Burns. "That was the great thing. Not the joke, but the fact that she could make it believable. It takes a damned good actress to do that." Theirs was a durable formula that lasted through vaudeville, radio and television, ending with Gracie's retirement in 1958. She was only 59 when she died of a heart attack...
...Budget will undoubtedly be a huge success, not least because Davies slavishly follows the formula that made the Stones' Some Girls a successful comeback album. A disco track, "Superman," will spearhead Low Budget's blitzkrieg on the mass market. Another song, "National Health"--with an unadorned bass line and spare mixing--sounds strikingly like the Stones' "Shattered." Several other tracks are fast-paced, punk-influenced ditties...