The Yugoslav breakup showed that the century-old formula for self-determination — forcing together tribes who hate each other just to make them viable states — has failed.
According to the editors of The Almanac: "(The book), which bases its long-range forecasts on an almost 200 century-old formula, forewarns of a colder-than-normal winter for two-thirds of the nation.
In what would be confirmation of the worst fears of a Wilders, the new identity prototype has an inclusiveness that inverts the centuries-old formula.
In the late nineteen-sixties, a couple of young physicists thumbing through mathematics books came upon a centuries-old formula that, miraculously, seemed to fit the latest experimental data about elementary particles.
All of New York's 100 or so "free association" libraries -- created before a century-old state formula permitting one library per school district -- must comply with local zoning ordinances, while district libraries, like the school districts whose boundaries they share, are exempt.
For nearly 200 years, Hiiragiya has adhered to the centuries-older ryokan formula: simple rooms furnished with natural materials polished wood, sliding shoji screens, floors covered in mats of rush-straw tatami plus multicourse kaiseki dinners of seasonal ingredients and a room attendant devoted solely to you.
At a 1965 concert, Bernstein heard the familiar bells that signaled the end of intermission and asked Gottleib, "Why do we have to listen to that same old formula?" "This is the 20th century," he added.
One frisson-causing Diaghilev formula — it went through many modernist revisions in successive ballets, though it was essentially centuries old — was that of the exotic femme fatale seducing the virile young athlete.
That niche is centuries old, and enduring.
Many moving toys are centuries old.
