Word: factor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overinvestment" in new plants. Said Harris: "Obviously, we are doing too much with our limited resources. Hence the pressure on prices." The fact that management was spending so much had helped cause a scramble for materials, and had driven up prices. The plant expansion, he thought, was an "inflationary factor of great importance...
Atkinson is authorized to sell the lot, the site of the Cambridge police station, until 15 years ago, for not less than $34,000, but prize is not the only factor...
Wily old General Ibañez, a 1927-vintage dictator, claimed that he had tried to dissuade the plotters, but nobody believed him. Vergara would not talk. A sergeant uncovered one factor with the naive testimony: "I thought the movement was only aimed to raise...
...important factor in setting the General Examination schedule has been the necessity for getting grades worked out in time for the mid-January meetings of the Faculty, Board of Overseers, and the Corporation, which note degrees and honors to the graduating students. These meetings were orginally slated for around January 15, which some-what cramped the time allotted for correcting the Generals; History, Government, and Economics were undoubtedly justified in picking an early date under these conditions. But now the three all-important meetings have been pushed up towards the end of the month...
...nations and governments, it is extremely difficult to judge the alternatives. Before the State Department's experts recommend our signing the Pact, they must be sure that this would not preclude negotiations with Russia in the future and that the psychological lift to Europe outbalances the additional irritant factor. Under these circumstances, United States participation in the North Atlantic Pact takes on the aspect of an unfortunate necessity...