Word: factor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year in the Soviet Union was struck last May as part of Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign to upgrade the quality of Soviet life. Part of the magazine's expected appeal is that it publishes sewing patterns of its fashion offerings, which Soviet homemakers will be able to copy. Another factor that probably found favor with Moscow's officialdom is that Burda shuns articles on sex and politics, traditional Soviet taboos. At first the new Burda edition will be printed in West Germany, but the plan is to begin printing in Moscow within two years and reach a circulation...
...Fatigue played a big factor last time," Delaney Smith said. "I'm going to be subbing more so we can play both games tough...
Perhaps it is the high proportion of walking corpses, dressed like extras from Sunset Boulevard, that makes everyone else in the audience look ill, too. The buckets o' blood spilled during a typical opera must be a contributing factor. And I've heard it said that opera is a slow-acting poison to red-blooded Americans. Whatever the reason, to visit the opera is to see an audience and an art form on its last legs...
Another key factor in the transmission of the disease is the unwillingness of many heterosexual men to change their sexual practices. "We tell people this disease is caused by sexual intercourse and they laugh," says Louis Ochero, who heads Uganda's AIDS education program. "They say, 'But we've been having that for years and never got such a thing.' " Nor has the American boom in the use of condoms yet taken hold among most Africans. "Condoms here are regarded as something dirty," says Ochero, "something you use on harlots." The resistance extends into elite circles. A frank lecture last...
...Another factor in the rise of tension in Lebanon last week was Washington's invitation to six allies to attend a conference in Rome on the hostage crisis. Other governments vetoed the idea of the meeting, fearing that any joint action might jeopardize the lives of the kidnap victims. Moreover, Iranscam has deprived the U.S. of much of its credibility in terrorist diplomacy, and allies are more reluctant than usual to follow Washington's lead...