Word: factor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beryl Sprinkel, chairman of Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, forecasts that production will grow 10% more over the next five years than it would under the present tax code. One reason: consumers who save on taxes will have more money to spend and invest. A bigger factor is that the bill would remove the distortions that are created by the existing maze of incentives and exemptions. No longer will businessmen waste their ingenuity devising elaborate schemes to turn ordinary income into capital gains. Dollars will flow to the most productive uses rather than being diverted into agricultural enterprises designed...
...remain a credible factor in the year before the 1988 campaign gets under way in earnest, Robertson must broaden his appeal and pull together a staff that can handle the complex logistics of a national campaign. One thing working in his favor is that he is positioned to run well in the South's pod of primaries, caucuses and conventions that will be held in the same week in March of 1988 and will choose perhaps 30% of the delegates to the national conventions. (So is Jackson, who may reap the South's black Democrats the way Robertson may reap...
...really won the first round of Michigan's confused Republican delegate-selection process last Tuesday? Well, Bush certainly came out on top, though hardly in a way that solidifies his status as clear front runner. And ! Robertson did well enough to establish himself as a real factor, though not a credible contender for the nomination. Kemp seems to have done about as well as Robertson, but that may have made him the big loser. In fact the real winners may have been those who did not run, such as Robert Dole, Paul Laxalt and Howard Baker...
...hour, to $22.60. USX negotiators have insisted that the firm needs a savings of at least $2 an hour, to about $23, to stay competitive. USX underscored that demand last week when it reported that second-quarter earnings had plummeted by 92%, to $14 million. A major factor was the firm's U.S. Steel division, which lost $42 million during the period...
...harrowing (and sometimes reassuring) detail, and conversations among radar technicians are loaded with the requisite Pentagon jargon. Clancy convincingly shows the importance of electronic intelligence--gathered by satellites, ships, planes and submarines--to modern warfare. Yet it is an old-fashioned human component that proves to be a critical factor. One of the multitude of subplots involves four Americans wandering the barren terrain of occupied Iceland, reporting Soviet movements on a primitive two-way radio. At first, allied analysts are skeptical about the information, but it turns out to be crucial. Here Clancy goes off automatic pilot; there are even...