In his Equation for Life lecture, Tyree weaves together a foolproof formula for attaining lifelong success in business and everyday living.

"French Kiss" may have a more putatively foolproof formula, but everyone here has done vastly more interesting work.

There is no foolproof formula to predict a child's resilience, Dr. Groze said, although factors like length of time spent in an institution, seem to correlate with later impairments.

Mr. Clinton attributed the bitter, partisan atmosphere in Washington to what he said was a Republican belief that "they had found a foolproof formula to hold on to the White House forever."

Second, she was young and astonishingly beautiful - an almost foolproof formula for serious trouble in space.

Discover a foolproof formula for generating that, and you'll break the bank, continually.

She came up with a foolproof formula: for every cup of sliced rhubarb, there should be 1/4 cup sugar and 1 tablespoon flour.

In 2000, the national Liberal government rebounded with the Clarity Act, which it thought was a foolproof formula to prevent separatists from taking advantage of an ambiguously worded question to win an independence referendum.

Hollywood has a formula, not foolproof but entrenched, for turning a political message into a commercial film: take a likable hero, add a romance, then telegraph an unobjectionable idea, something like, "Let's feed starving children."

There does not seem to be a single, foolproof formula for deregulation, which is a recent development even in countries with well-established market systems.