Word: factors
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...conceived by some of Johnson's ranking advisers in the Administration and the party, his strategy will encompass five major factors. They are to: 1) freshen the face and sharpen the thrust of Great Society proposals; 2) employ Administration officials, with the exception of the Secretaries of State and Defense, as traveling evangelists for the Johnsonian word in the next few months; 3) stress, in the post-convention period, the human factor rather than the statistical and fiscal in defend ing domestic programs, with heavy use of sophisticated television advertising; 4) revive the enervated Democratic Party apparatus, with emphasis...
Double Rescue. At election time next year, Gorton will have one big factor going for him in hardy, hero-loving Australia. Flying with the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II, he was shot down in the Pacific in 1942, lived for days on turtle eggs and fish until his rescue, then went through painful plastic surgery for injuries he had received when his face "got mixed up with the instrument panel." As he sailed home at last on leave, his boat was torpedoed, and he spent another day and a night on a raft, chest-deep in water...
...committee on mental health has strongly recommended revision in the draft structure. Psychologists have stressed that draft pressure is a dangerous threat to the mental well-being of college students and has probably been a factor precipitating psychiatric difficulties...
...Green from Hanover shot 60 per cent from the floor in the second half to clinch the decision, but it was Harvard's general incompetence that was the decisive factor...
Computer Talk. He goes back to Descartes to test what he calls "the immaterialist hypothesis," the theory that at some point in man's evolution, a supernatural factor entered and set man forever above lower orders of creation. This hypothesis, once generally held, and still held by orthodox Christians, is now challenged by widespread acceptance of the "materialist hypothesis"-the notion that man is merely a more complicated organism in a hierarchy of natural history extending down to the smallest bacterium...