Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arises from a difference in stroke technique. A player uses much more wrist action in swinging a squash racket and therefore undercuts his groundstroke. In tennis, the strokes are longer and more graceful. A player often puts overspin on both his forehand and backhand. Tennis strategy also necessitales a factor of restraint which is not present in squash because of the surrounding walls...
...more freedom-and getting it. Perhaps most significant was the demand for a neutral foreign policy. Even a few years ago, Moscow would have rudely condemned or cruelly crushed those making such demands. Now, Russia's rukrs were apparently prepared to yield (see THE WORLD). And a key factor in the Czechoslovaks' insistence on neutrality was apparently the same sort of disaffection with the Viet Nam war that has been plaguing U.S. citizens. In Prague, the new-breed officials who are taking over believe that the conflict is in danger of getting out of hand, resent the levied...
...stake in the primary. McCarthy's is to prove that New Hampshire was only the beginning for him, Johnson's to show that New Hampshire was an aberration. But Robert Kennedy, who is not on the ballot, and has not campaigned there, may become a decisive enough factor by means of write-in votes to make the outcome indecisive...
Nixon said that McCarthy's style is the second factor. He described it as "honest and candid." "I think that McCarthy will wear better than Bobby," he said. "Bobby appeals to all the base emotions...
...charge structure of the neutron had determined that if a dipole existed, the dipole moment divided by the charge on the proton of the particle must be less than 5 x 10 to the negative 20th centimeter. Ramsey's work through January, 1968, has lowered this limit by a factor of 1000, and still no evidence for the existence of the dipole has been found...