Word: factors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most intellectual histories go so deeply into the vagaries of the popular mind of an era. "The mind of man," Miller wrote eleswhere, "is the basic factor in human history." But he has not written a history of elections or famous books, for the life of the mind, as he sees it, is less intellectual and political than it is psychological. In his approach, the politics, the great literature are assumed, but not central; in one sense, they are even outside the course of history, as much determined by the fuller life of the country as determining...
...major factor behind the manufacturers' desire to cut inventory is cost-in money tied up, storage, handling, insurance. One estimate is that the $1.5 billion worth of steel on hand before the settlement was costing users $20 million a month to carry in inventory. Many warehousers may continue ordering steel just to be safe, but take advantage of a steel industry practice: the right to cancel an order without penalty right up to the time the mills actually start executing it. Automakers, who absorb 12% of the nation's steel output, plan to work down their...
...Launching Pad. Another factor in the new atmosphere has been the feeling that the church should be, as San Francisco's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike puts it, "a launching pad, not a comfort station." American Christianity's desire to say and do something relevant about social problems of the day has propelled clergymen out of the pulpit and onto civil rights picket lines. "From there," says the Rt. Rev. James Montgomery, Episcopal Suffragan Bishop of Chicago, "it is only another short step into deliberate partnership in the war on poverty and in educational projects." One reason that...
...York, is one of the nation's few major cities that does not meter water consumption in residences. It has also failed to tap its biggest potential source, the Hudson River. Johnson reminisced privately that "from earliest memory" of his arid birthplace, he regarded water as the "determining factor in our happiness or sorrow." He had some plain-spoken hill-country advice for his visitors: cut down on waste. And in fact, Northeasterners may ultimately benefit from the drought if it teaches them some of the Westerner's reverence for water. One sign of change came at week...
...economic development is impossible." Rhythm & Abortion. Part of the problem is Latin America's Roman Catholic tradition, which opposes any means of family regulation except the rhythm method. Unfortunately, that form of birth control has proved far too sophisticated for Latin America's widely uneducated masses. Another factor is machismo, a he-man complex that makes sexual prowess and large families-in or out of wedlock-a matter of male pride. In some areas of Latin America, a man who has fathered only five or six children may be regarded by his friends as something of a laggard...