Word: factors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of the University of Arizona, a man who has spent much of his life peering at the moon through the world's best telescopes. "What has been achieved today is truly remarkable," he announced. "We have made progress in resolution not by a factor of 10, or 100, which would have been already remarkable, but by a factor of 1,000. The moon, which a good telescope can bring to a distance of 500 miles, has been brought in the Ranger experiment to a distance of half a mile...
...curbside parking meters. Letters poured in from cities as far away as Britain, asking about the feasibility of this unprecedented backtracking-the result of a determined campaign by Realtor Richard D. Tourtelot, who managed to convince St. Petersburg officials that the meters were the major factor in the blight that had fallen on the city's downtown area. Downtown doldrums are getting to be pandemic, and if meter removal was a solution, other cities wanted to know about...
...timing is also an important factor in characterization. And an actor should be aware--or the director should tell him--what kind of character he is projecting by timing his lines as he does. The trouble with Miss Wilson and Gebow was that they did not seem to have decided...
Abdul-Taib, Minister of Communications and Work in Malaysia, emphasized that Islam was an important factor in the building of a stable government in Malaysia seven years ago. Rather than a violent revolution, there was instead an evolution toward modern statehood...
...were hardened, highly trained Communists when they arrived. Their reasons for eventually defecting were much the same. One factor was homesickness: "It is harder to hide and fight in the hills near your home and not be able to go to it than it is to be far away from it." More important was their disillusionment with Communism. As one defector put it: "They told us the Americans were running all of South Viet Nam and that living was very bad there. When we had a chance to see for ourselves, we learned that the Vietnamese were still running Viet...