Word: factor
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...orchestra launched into "I've been working on the railroad" on a number of occasions, presumably because if Reagan gets elected, the trains will run on time. But for the GOP to have such a united convention last week, there must have been a unifying factor, one thing that caused ultra-conservatives like Jesse Helms and moderates like George Bush and Henry Kissinger to abandon their "principles." That factor was the person of Ronald Reagan, a sincere, likeable, even comforting figure. Wherever he appeared, he conveyed a personal air of respectability and pleasantness...
...apparent choice of Trident but also with the French decision to upgrade its force de frappe. "Independently of whatever the French doctrine may be," notes Gregory Flynn, a U.S. strategic expert at the Paris-based Atlantic Institute, "the existence of a French nuclear force is an additional factor of uncertainty for the Soviets." British Defense Secretary Francis Pym justifies the nuclear modernization policy on the same grounds: "Whereas [the Thatcher] government has absolute confidence in the U.S. commitment to Europe . . . a NATO defense containing these powerful independent elements is a harder one to predict and a more dangerous...
...argument bruises old myths. In the crueler interpretation of the American idea, anyone who failed was more or less meant to fail. That logic may, more than any other single factor, explain the tragedy of race in America...
...must retain our perspective of what we jointly want and what we have jointly achieved. Our alliance is a living organism: it has time and again proved its vitality through its ability to adapt to changed conditions. After Europe's economic recovery it will increasingly become a political factor as well. This means no weakening but a strengthening of the alliance owing to European unification...
...that all ethnic groups are benefiting. Says Harvard Professor Adam Ulam: "There is a consciousness of national greatness, a sense that the Soviet Union is now one of the two superpowers, that its influence is rising while the West's is declining. Psychologically, that has been a very strong factor in the average Soviet's attitude toward the regime. He is conscious of his prestige in the world...