41.   Woods is one of those writers whose figures become simply bodies, sex dolls, mouthpieces for a social attitude.

42.   Others, inspired by more permissive social attitudes, take mistresses, leading to fights at home.

43.   A major factor in the spread of the disease in Thailand has been a thriving sex industry and social attitudes that condone male patronage of prostitutes.

44.   Blaming social attitudes for worsening her plight, however, is moot.

45.   But along with the social attitudes, the economy, still weak after its worst slowdown since World War II, is becoming an increasingly important factor as well.

46.   Economic development is a methodical step-by-step process, often made possible as much by changed social attitudes as by new roads or big-city sewage systems.

47.   Family-planning groups like hers cite some successes in lowering abortion through public information campaigns and contraceptives, but say that changing social attitudes takes time.

48.   In Soviet times, social attitudes and shortages of contraceptives made abortion a common form of birth control.

49.   It was revenge against the status quo, perpetuated by dogmatic social attitudes and oppressive social mores.

50.   Larkin remains a full-time Fianna Fail worker and often accompanies Ahern in public, providing a barometer for how social attitudes are shifting in this rapidly modernizing nation.