Mark Green has already come up with a clever formulation on this score.
(His formulation on Tuesday night, which was not specific about a motive, did not back away from that position).
His surrogates repeatedly mock President Obama's "apology tour" and his unfortunate "leading from behind" formulation on Libya.
The best formulation on this topic was Bill Clinton's, that abortion should be "safe, legal and rare".
Mr. Bernanke offered a new formulation on Tuesday, telling the audience of economists that 6.5 percent would be the beginning of the Fed's internal debate.
Mr. Romney delivered a similar formulation on Saturday: "Now, the foundation needed for a strong economy and a strong military is a people of strong values".
Last year, NASA officials said, the agency shifted to a new formulation on most of the external tank, avoiding harm to the ozone layer and the problems experienced with intermediate foam formulas.
I also want to express my appreciation to him for noting that my father's formulation on historical cycles in his book "The Cycles of American History" was, as Mr. Hart writes, inherited from his own historian father, Arthur Schlesinger Sr.
But Mr. Gates offered a slightly different formulation on Thursday, arguing that political progress would come when Iraqi Army and police units proved able to take over primary responsibility for maintaining security in areas now largely controlled by American troops.
A full-scale recreation of the worst symptoms of the Aids epidemic would be as tasteless and controversial as recreating aspects of the Holocaust, verging, in Claude Lanzmann's formulation, on the pornographic.
Anderson, Gilchrest, and colleagues tested their cosmetic formulation on 12 volunteers.
