Word: formula
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with a pool of eight prestigious universities, Harvard ranks eighth in numbers of tenured women faculty, fifth in minority tenured faculty, sixth in nontenured women faculty, and sixth in nontenured minority faculty. Harvard's own Affirmative Action Plan for 1989 states that "On the basis of the university's formula to determine underutilization of women and minorities, FAS currently shows a shortfall of 17 senior and 11 (tenure) ladder female faculty...
...doesn't take a public relations consultant to understand that this is not the way to the heart of the Average Voter. What made Bush endearing to so many voters was his superficial commonness, not a confession of highbrow pursuits. Republicans should have stuck to a proven formula: pork rinds and horseshoes...
...chance. "Put trust in our policy of renewal," advised Krenz, promising a "far- reaching program" to change the constitution, the economy and the education system. Yet he defined perestroika merely as something to "make socialism more attractive." For him, Soviet-style reform seemed not so much a welcome formula for change as a last-ditch effort to prop up the East German system before the rift between the party and society grows too wide to bridge. He flatly rejected any suggestion that East Germany might be merging into the West. "The question is not on the table," he said. "Socialism...
...single or divorced, with a high- pressure job, little inner peace and a history of moderate drug use and heavy drinking. "They're extremists, hard drivers, workaholics," says Rosecan. "With an all-or-nothing personality and a history of drug experimentation, you've got a formula for disaster when this person tries crack...
...consuming, honoring...human--is the fuel that drives and deepens all other social passions and commitments, which connects us to the species in a way which work, career, money and our ever-bloated resumes can only hope to imitate. Und, after all, was the great connective in Freud's formula...