Will Damon and director Paul Greengrass find a formula that can acknowledge the financial crash, IS and populist nationalism?
As with other psychological experiences, like happiness or regret, scholars have long hunted for a formula that can explain humor.
It is turned into a formula that can be taught by teachers, learned by students and managed by policy-makers.
Any potential new magazine seems endlessly focus-grouped to develop a reliable formula that can be executed by a small editorial staff.
This is not, of course, a formula that can be universally applied; if it could, every melodrama could become Shakespearean just by muddying up the plot.
Mr. Gilbert believes he has a winning formula that can be applied to the diverse companies proposed by Bizdom U students.
The more successful (and powerful) the CEO, the more influence he has in making that choice, a formula that can lead to disaster.Take Coca-Cola.
There is simply no way for social scientists to reduce this kind of complexity into equations and formula that can be replicated one place after another.
There are also some income thresholds built into the formula that can cause a big increase in the E.F.C. when income exceeds these thresholds.
The legislators, Senator John Adler and Assemblyman Herb Conaway, co-chairmen of the special committee, said their goal is to develop a financing formula that can be imposed upon every school district.
As Congress returns next week, leading Democrats are struggling for the formula that can attract bipartisan support to extend the life of President Bush's education law, No Child Left Behind.
