Word: factor
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WHETHER OR NOT the student demonstrations are indirectly connected with the reform leaders in some fashion, the conduct of the demonstrations will be a factor in politics. If order is maintained and no violence occurs, the demonstrations may redound to the support of "democratic" reforms, however they may be defined. If on the other hand violence does occur, a life is lost and that Chinese bugaboo "chaos" is threatened, then the demonstrators may not have helped their cause. Obviously there is a great opportunity for dirty work...
...REAGAN'S tried and true damage control method suddenly break down so dramatically? For several reasons. Certainly, the magnitude and visibility of the crisis was a factor. The arms deal involves allegations of criminal conduct, incompetence and rotten policy at the highest levels of the government...
Also, the White House, in its incompetent execution of the arms deals, left a poorly hidden trail of evidence. Another major factor is that in light of Irangate, President Reagan's tough anti-terrorist rhetoric sounds like blatant hypocrisy...
...reform program to bear fruit, Ramos needs political stability and time, which may be the most important reason he has chosen to side with Aquino. Another factor, say officials in both the Aquino Cabinet and the military, is that he may want to succeed Aquino when her presidential term expires in 1992. Married, Ramos has five children, all girls, whose ages range from 13 to 31. He is scheduled to retire from the military in two years. The central question is how long he will side with Aquino now that he is no longer the point of balance between...
...when Paris Review editors send John Barth a check and additional questions to beef up a woefully brief interview, the author of the 800-page The Sot-Weed Factor returns the emolument with a curt note: "It doesn't displease me to hear that our interview will be perhaps the shortest one you've run. In fact, it's a bit shorter now than it was before (enclosed). Better not run it by me again...