During the first hostage drama, between 1979 and 1981, the election of a tough-talking Republican contributed to Iran's acceptance of a complex formula to end the fourteen-month seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
These technocrats presided over Japan's phenomenal economic rise, but more recently have proved incapable of finding a new growth formula to end the stagnation and decline that set in after the burst of the property bubble in the early 1990s.
Other losers in the longer term include local authorities, which saw their education role trimmed again, through a review of school spending efficiency and a proposal for a national school funding formula designed to end the regional patchwork that sees funding vary by thousands of pounds per pupil.
But this is nit-picking, since Austenland is really about the female fantasy of love and romance, and the film has a fine time with the popular Austen formula, promising to end with a ball and lots of engagements, which, in a sense, it delivers.
The decision on the school financing formula is expected to end the uncertainty that had forced some big districts to issue layoff notices and delay planning for the school year.
When you get a trustworthy moving company, they will tell you how they calculate your moving fees, and they will stick by that formula from beginning to end.
PAGE A19 ROGER COHEN It's time to think again, not merely to recalibrate old formulas, in order to end the three-decade impasse in United States-Iranian ties.
It's time to think again, not merely to recalibrate old formulas, in order to end the three-decade impasse in U.S.-Iranian ties, a breakdown of huge cost and menace.
According to formula (8), the end to end average delay could be calculated.
After December, when the European Union accepted Turkey as an official candidate for membership, European leaders said they hoped some formula would soon be found to end the long and violent confrontation between Turkish and Kurdish nationalism.
Mr Assad's prickliness has reinvigorated Syria's allies in Lebanon, and chilled the investment climate.Mr Siniora's reforms have also been hamstrung by the complex constitutional formula that was hashed out to end the civil war and which effectively grants veto power to his opponents.
