On Wall Street, most bankers are paid a convoluted formula of cash and stock that's determined by committee.
The version moving through the Senate has problems of its own, chiefly a convoluted formula that would allow the states to report average test scores, thus obscuring the true achievement gap.
The reason: in the final hurried days of negotiations toward a new collective bargaining agreement nearly two years ago, the convoluted formula for determining the amount of money paid to players given the tag was changed.
Based on a convoluted formula that takes into account inflation and the average price of meals sold in schools, certain districts — like New York City, where lunch is sold for $1.50 — did not have to raise prices this year.
Even as lawmakers are reducing the number of Congressional districts, they are proposing to increase the number of districts in the State Senate, to 63 from 62, in a move Republicans say is required by a convoluted formula in the state's Constitution, but which Democrats say is a ploy by the Republicans to improve their chances of keeping a majority.
To this end, when a system consists of a combination of series and parallel segments, convoluted block reliability formulas can be applied based on underlying statistical theory behind the formulas which are physically justifiable (Ebeling 1997).
While the final formula is somewhat convoluted, the net effect is to reduce benefits by an average of roughly 3.0percentt.
That way, the sky's the limit!" Later, the release cites a convoluted valuation formula put forth by a finance professor at the fictitious Grenada State Schnook School of Business.
The formula that Medicaid uses to reimburse Texas hospitals is convoluted.
The computer formula for the Bowl Championship Series ranking is so convoluted that it would make the maze of an Afghanistan cave look like the Queens-Midtown Tunnel.
