Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Girls & Sewing Machines. It is Vientiane's unique charm to be riding the crest of an economic boomlet as political disaster perpetually surrounds it. Indian and Chinese shops are stocked with Scotch whisky, Benares silks, Dior perfumes and Max Factor cosmetics. But under it all lurks the perennial mood of bo peng nhan (it doesn't matter), scrofulous pi-dogs howl their way past open drains, and the sidewalks under the glittering shop windows are perilous with potholes...
West Germany's 400,000-man army is the most important single factor that gives NATO a remaining degree of reality. Yet much of the West still expects the uniforms of its German allies to be made of sackcloth. Erhard may be an honored guest in the U.S., as he is this week; the British may graciously send their Queen to visit, or the French artfully try to woo Bonn away from the American alliance-but the Germans still feel unloved. "Joyous bonfires burn in the night sky all around Germany as her former enemies celebrate their victory...
Appearing at the stadium named in his honor, Bung (Brother) Karno applauded the P.K.I, as "a very important factor in the Indonesian revolution." His 33-minute speech drew cheers from such honored guests as the Red Chinese, Albanian, North Vietnamese and Cuban delegations. And the U.S. (which has granted Indonesia $896 million in aid) observed the occasion with an ambassadorial switch. American Ambassador Howard Palfrey Jones, 66, a seven-year veteran of the Bung's bombast, of whom it has been said, "Sukarno perhaps understood Jones better than Jones understood Sukarno," departed, with U.S.-Indonesian relations at their lowest...
Brown of the University of Pennsylva nia. The panel's report, "Potential Haz ards of Back Contamination from the Planets," was made public last week after nearly a year of hush-hush treatment by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It added a chill ing new factor to the future of space exploration...
...when Peter first plunged Grace into chemicals, its annual sales have risen from $315 million to $815 million; chemicals now account for more than 62% of the total. Last week at the company's annual meeting in Chicago, Peter Grace predicted that chemicals would be the major factor in pushing 1965's sales close to $1 billion...