Word: factor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cover some of the relevant bases, he ignores key leads to the problem at hand. For instance, in the half-hour we hear nothing of Allen's fifteen years of psychoanalysis, although that process has probably provided Allen with a larger portion of his humor than any other single factor. Allen does a lot of psychological jokes, and the understanding that his analysis has afforded him into his own personality and into his relationship with his parents, friends and lovers is essential to a man who survives by the quality of his observations of people. Allen's whole shtick, simplified...
...Buffalo Bills and Baltimore Colts, preached tax-cutting to unseat incumbent Governor Michael Dukakis in the Democratic primary. Dukakis and liberals around the country are still not sure exactly what hit him. "Incumbentitis," the mere fact of holding office in this surprising, restless year, was doubtless a factor. In addition, Dukakis, though far from a big-spending liberal, had raised taxes after promising in his 1974 campaign that he would not. King is clearly to the right of his Republican opponent, Francis Whiting Hatch Jr., a proper Yankee of venerable lineage who is attracting the support of many liberal Democrats...
...explicitly against quotas. After loud protests from black leaders and some Cabinet officers, including HEW Secretary Joseph Califano, McCree and Assistant U.S. Attorney General Drew Days, who is also black, changed the emphasis considerably. Avoiding the question of quotas, the final draft strongly argued that race can be "a factor" in professional-school admissions...
...memory, they argue, none of the candidates for governor or lieutenant governor is an "upstater": Duryea's running mate, Rep. Bruce Caputo, operates out of Westchester, while the Democratic ticket of Gov. Hugh L. Carey and perennial candidate Mario M. Cuomo hails from Brooklyn and Queens, respectively. The geographical factor--always crucial, but even more so in the era of Swiss-cheese bond issues and state aid for the city--has, the Manhattan observers try to assure themselves, finally tilted in their favor...
...such as room to expand, right to work laws, and limited unionization. Rifkin and Barber, taking the inevitable scenario for their base, analyze the reasons behind declining union membership, the anti-northeast corporate strategy and the failures of the business unionism to address these issue, and introduce a new factor--social capital in pension funds...