Word: factors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is only so much the Faculty can do to soothe the students who obstructed the Dow recruiter. Few professors would ever accept restrictions on the work they do for the government, classified or not. Research expenses are high these days and the government is the richest benefactor. This factor, of course, pales before the spectre of possible incursions upon academic freedom. For University policy dictates only that a professor meet his commitments to the Faculty and students. The rest of his time is virtually...
...most important factor which led to the shelving of the Belt was probably simply the BPR's money problems. The Interstate Highway System, of which the Belt is a part, was scheduled to be completed by 1973, but rising construction costs have forced the government to extend the completion date by at least two years...
...bombing does not now do, and never has done, what its strongest advocates have argued it might do. Bombings have been a serious inconvenience for North Viet Nam's efforts in the South, but virtually every reliable observer has reported that they also have been a mighty factor in building morale there." It is possible, the Journal granted, for the U.S. to bomb North Viet Nam out of existence. But "could it bring stability and resistance to Communism to Southeast Asia? The spectacle of the world's most powerful nation becoming obsessed with the destruction of a relatively...
...London amuse ment parks and movie lots. The son of a sewing-machine repairman, Matchan parlayed a modest talent for figures and an immodest one for braggadocio into a youthful career as a "financial ad viser" to showfolk. At 25, he landed a bookkeeping job with Max Factor when the U.S. cosmetics maker entered the British market. In twelve years, Mat chan 1) helped wash away the prewar Victorian notion that lipstick was not for English ladies, and 2) became the company's European general manager...
Things have changed. And a large part of the American mind has changed. It isn't really difficult to see that Soviet expansionism has been contained--by whatever means--and that Communism is only an incidental factor in third-world upheavals nowadays...