Word: formula
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...release February 25, Galbraith's third novel, A Tenured Professor, revolves around the life of Montgomery Marvin, a fictional junior professor of economics at Harvard. Marvin invents the Index of Irrational Expectations (IRAT), an economic formula that allows him to make a fortune...
...five-year-olds who fell before a rain of automatic gunfire. In a corner of the room, elephant tails, rancid and maggot infested, lie in a heap. Behind the building, skulls bleach in the sun. And just up a slope, an orphaned elephant greedily nurses on a bottle of formula and suckles at the fingers of its human keeper. Unless led away, an orphan will linger by its fallen mother until it collapses from starvation or thirst. And a mature elephant coming across a carcass, even one streaked with vulture droppings, will try to rouse it to life with...
Yesterday's game followed a formula Getman has seen too much this year...
What Mazzafro did was offer Michael large doses of love and patience. That formula had already worked wonders with Tuan, now 14, a Vietnamese refugee who had come to Mazzafro four months earlier, speaking no English and still toting the cardboard box that had been his bed at a relocation center in Malaysia. Now he's an honors student at the local junior high, while Michael has become a computer whiz with his sights set on Princeton. Meanwhile, Joe Mazzafro is applying his methods to Brandon, 9, his third adopted son, who tumbled through nine foster homes in his first...
...fighting during eleven years of guerrilla opposition. The Bush Administration is left in the uncomfortable position of backing a mercurial prince who remains aligned with men bent on restoring an odious regime. But the Administration maintains, with good reason, that any settlement that ignores the Khmer Rouge is a formula for civil...