Word: formula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should remember that China has only one formula for making friends: My enemy's enemy is my friend! China has joined hands with Pakistan only to corner India and has joined hands with the U.S. only to pin down the Soviet Union...
...Washington's "evenhanded" policy of castigating both the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and the Chinese invasion of Viet Nam was scornfully dismissed as a tilt toward China. It was that insistent Soviet view which torpedoed a United Nation's Security Council effort to devise a cease-fire formula. Western and Third World members lined up behind a proposed resolution calling for reciprocal withdrawal of both Vietnamese and Chinese troops. China indicated that it was in favor, but negotiations collapsed in the face of a certain Soviet veto. In the light of Vice Premier Teng's festive reception...
...hardest struggle has been to police prices. In the U.S.'s trillion-dollar economy, no single formula could be fair to every company. COWPS' 45-page booklet of basic regulations is so loaded with well-intentioned but confusing caveats, qualifications and exceptions that not even lawyers seem able to understand it. Meanwhile, fresh legalese spews forth almost daily from COWPS in an effort to clarify, amplify or refine earlier regulations and procedures...
...aegis of programming whiz Fred Silverman, NBC has promised, with great fanfare, to improve its original programming. At ten, I caught a pilot of Mrs. Columbo, a detective series about the wife of the character Peter Falk played. So much for originality. The story, however, was a moderately entertaining formula television mystery--just substitute a new title character and rearrange a few details, and it would have been Barnaby Jones or McCloud...
...convention of the American Booksellers Association, a bestselling young novelist named Giles Devore is found dead in his hotel room. The only one who suspects foul play is Author Darius Just, and he must work his way through a healthy number of suspects to prove his case. The formula is familiar, and Asimov, wearing his mystery writer's hat, works it out with ease. He also introduces himself as a character and manages to dominate long passages of the novel; when Asimov is not onstage, other characters are talking about him. This amiable megalomania often shoves suspense well into...