Word: formula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter moved quickly to recover. He made an appearance of his own before reporters to proclaim that he had begun working to ease California's gas shortage long before Brown's visit. On May 1, Carter said, the Department of Energy changed the gasoline allocation formula so that California will get more gas. Previously allocations were based on 1978 supplies; the formula will now take into consideration population growth...
...plays uncomfortably. There is also a flatness about Stan Dragoti's direction that prevents the film from realizing all its comic potential. But the performances (including that of Arte Johnson as Renfield, the count's bug-eating assistant) are uniformly jolly, the parody of the basic Dracula formula well observed and its social commentary deliciously off the wall. The production's genially tatty air enhances its anarchical mood and encourages one to go with its goofy yet often shrewd comic flow...
Mired behind its rival networks, NBC seeks a winning formula...
There are, in fact, convincing reasons, some of them highly technical. Gasoline prices are federally controlled, but ceilings vary from station to station, some right across the street from each other, because their expenses vary. The price control formula permits dealers to offset the cost of gasoline, the rent on their gas stations, the wages of their employees and other overhead expenses, and still earn a profit. For competitive reasons, dealers normally sell at somewhat less than their maximum allowable prices; drivers shop around for the best prices when supplies are ample. But when a small surplus of oil turns...
...infant formula product is marginally profitable, not a big money-maker," Bechtal said...