Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of factors have been cited by officials to account for the difficulty in raising the matching money. The stock market's decline, they say, has hurt Harvard efforts, and the number of simultaneous drives -- the University's total needs exceed $100 million -- is not making the job any easier...
...Russian film, "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors," which had taken the honors at the San Francisco Film Festival, arriving in New York with a hearty endorsement from Kenneth Anger, director of "Scorpio Rising." Like most Russian films, it was crude, old-fashioned, sentimental, and arty. But taking all that into account, it was really interesting, with good color, some nice free-form camerawork, and a lot of costumes and noisy Russian folk-music...
Motorcycles still account for 80% of the company's sales, and their throaty purr is the sound the Shacho-san loves best. "Driving a car," says Honda, straddling one of his new motor bikes, "is like sitting in a living room. Driving a motorcycle is like controlling something almost alive...
...separate occasions before Francis' wife. When the bank president commits suicide, Francis is so close to the top that he can hush up the scandal with his left hand while his right hand is slipping $450,000 in crisp bills into manila envelopes destined for a Swiss numbered account...
...certainly did prove that dissent on Vietnam is no super-highway to political power --in Massachusetts, New Jersey, or anywhere. But they knew that from the start. What doomed both campaigns was the fact that in American politics these days personality, organization and money are essentials; issues come into account only when the other factors cancel themselves...