Word: factors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...labor market. When a young woman fresh out of college takes a job, notes a secretary at Lawyers Title Insurance Corp. in Washington, she often owns nothing but miniskirts. "The men huff and puff, and the old maids grimace, but what are you going to do?" Another factor is the influx of Negro and Spanish-speaking workers, many of whom are less inhibited by convention, thus dress with more flair...
...Henry Aaron. Other batsmen blame their anemic averages on the hardships of coast-to-coast travel, the lengthened big-league schedule, the visual vicissitudes of night baseball, the spacious new ballparks that turn extra-base blasts into long outs, and the bushel-basket-sized gloves used by fielders today. Factors all, but the commanding factor still is a quantum improvement in pitching quality...
...thought they could and should make their decision in view of the debates, was essentially which candidate had a more typical upbringing for an American boy to admire and which man used more "homey" language, filled with folksy metaphors and phrases. It was only in the debates that this factor was brought out, when both Nixon and Humphrey were speaking directly to the nation, and when they chose to talk at length about boyhood and their personal lives...
...tanked on Drano, or pushing Ken-L Ration for hungry Living Bras. Gradually, after 20 years of hard-sell harangue, viewers developed a kind of filter blend up front. They did not turn off their sets; they turned off their minds. Admen refer to that phenomenon as the "fatigue factor," but their research departments know it by the more ominous name of CEBUS (Confirmed Exposure but Unconscious). In one recent survey, 75% of the viewers tested had no recollection of what products they had just seen demonstrated...
Planes even bigger than the C-5 seem certain to come. The Air Force and U.S. manufacturers are studying the possibility of constructing an aircraft capable of carrying a 1,000,000-lb. pay-load-nearly four times that of the C5. About the only factor limiting the size of future planes is the ability of existing airport facilities to handle them. In view of Lockheed's success in producing its huge bird, none of the foreseeable obstacles to even bigger planes seem insurmountable...