Word: factors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...until he met tough Pete Thomas, who spoke the language of East Harlem as it can only be spoken by those who have been raised in its asphalt jungle, that Vaus made significant headway. After Vaus persuaded Thomas to work full time with Y.D.I., the organization became an important factor in East Harlem life. Some might suspect Vaus and Thomas, with their criminal backgrounds, of being a couple of Fagin types, but the doubters do not include the cops, educators or social workers in East Harlem...
...stnassed "efficiency-dictatorships" as the first and most important "affinity" factor. These are single-party governments without an explicit ideological commitment, but deriving power from their claim to "incarnate the general will of the people...
Second, he mentioned the necessary state control over an emerging economy, and its corresponding emphasis on "collectivities as opposed to individuals." The tendency to attribute all past troubles in these areas to European imperialism, Schwartz explained, is the third factor...
...thrust than the U.S.'s biggest. The space capsule that carried Belka and Strelka weighed five tons. The most powerful U.S. rocket available, the Air Force's Atlas, can at best put only a one-ton payload into orbit. What has delayed Mercury more than any other factor is the slow, painstaking miniaturization involved in devising an adequate capsule weighing only one ton. Because of such complications, some knowledgeable critics believe that it is high time for NASA to review the Mercury man-in-space project (cost to date: $350 million) and decide whether it makes sense...
APPEARANCE is no longer the prime factor in selling," says American Motors President George Romney. "We are now in an era of functionalism." What he means in plain English is that the U.S. businessman today finds himself in a tough, competitive buyer's market where the U.S. consumer has become a poking, prying comparison shopper, his checklist topped by one word written out in budget black: quality. Buyers loudly complain that familiar products are just not so good as they used to be-and the figures tend to bear them out. Pittsburgh's Better Business Bureau reported...