Word: factor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Another factor working against Brown is that many squads will be shaving to eliminate water resistance for the first time this year. Pitt and Brown have gone the entire season unshaven, and the times in the meet should be very fast...
...That the kook factor will do Robertson in. President Reagan believes in miracles and carries lucky charms in his pocket at all times. But he never wrestled with a hurricane on television. Even the glossy Jerry Falwell, with all his equivocal gifts, disdains glossolalia. Robertson, on the other hand, despite his prickliness about being called a television evangelist these days, has been captured on video showing all his Pentecostal fervor. The networks last week showed clips of him waving his arms as he spoke of curing hemorrhoids. In an interview with David Frost that aired this Sunday, Robertson defended...
...would take the information from the census, which people mail in regarding numbers [of persons living] in houses, and would then send people to the same houses to take a new, more exact count. Then we would compare the two counts and arrive at a different adjustment factor for each population block--such as Black males or white, elderly women. By applying those numbers to national statistics, we would adjust for the names missed in the national mailing," says Rubin, who has worked with the Census Bureau on statistical problems several times over the last 10 years...
Clearly these statements do not reflect the views of a man sane enough to guide this nation at one of its most critical times. However, Robertson's three strong primary finishes show that a substantial number of conservative voters have picked up Robertson's banner--making him a dangerous factor in the Republican convention and possibly even a presidential nominee. This is a serious threat--one that would destroy many of the things America stands for--and should be treated more seriously than it is now. If New Hampshire voters fail to stop Robertson now, Americans in the rest...
...time Americans pick a new President on Nov. 8 they will have invested nearly half a billion dollars in a random and chaotic process. They will have absorbed encyclopedic detail on such pop issues as the "wimp factor," and probably given more of the public's airwaves to this political marathon than to any other story of our age. Then a lot of them will lose interest until the Inauguration...