Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chains & Max Factor. One of the most striking victories in the emotional tug of war between the past and the future has taken place in Pakistan, which ten years ago was one of the most feudalistic Moslem areas in the world...
...four wives." When in 1954 then Prime Minister Mohammed Ali took a second wife, irate women stoned his car. Throughout the country, women are stepping out into a bright new world of universities and industry, of monthly paychecks and partnership in the home, of planned parenthood and Max Factor makeup. In the red-light districts of some larger cities the veil, instead of being the hallmark of respectability, is now worn chiefly by harlots as protective coloration...
...past three or four centuries, says Hocking, the world has been engaged in two great experiments. One is the "rejection" of "religion as a factor in political life." The other is the experiment in modernity which, "in begetting a secular science and secular arts, has also incidentally promoted a secular interpretation of state and law." As a result of this secularization, the state has been assigned tasks it cannot properly perform, for the state "depends for its vitality upon a motivation which it cannot by itself command...
Tedium seemed to be growing so fast in TV that Cunningham's outfit tried to measure "the Boredom Factor" by depth interviews, found that heavy percentages of ordinary viewers-not just the critics-yawning at such TV sacred cows as Arthur Godfrey (47%) and Red Skelton (38%). Cunningham feels that the Boredom Factor causes "dial-twitching, vacant-minded viewing, lower ratings" and, as far as the sponsor is concerned, "less penetration-per-skull per dollar...
...strong defensive work of the Yardlings, however, may be the biggest single factor in the outcome of the game. In four previous games the Yardlings have allowed a total of only 12 points to be scored against them, while tallying an offensive total of 85 points...