Word: factor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unpredictability of human life and death. (It was recalled that Leo XIII was notably frail but lived to be 93. When a well-wisher said to him, "May you live to be 100," he replied: "Why do you want to set limits on Divine Providence?") Even so, the health factor swiftly eliminated one attractive candidate, Brazil's Aloisio Lorscheider, 54, who had just spent two or three days in a hospital intensive-care unit for what was reported to be a third flare-up of heart trouble in three months. Aides later said he was simply suffering from exhaustion...
...Curia factor and the search for pastoral skill and charisma make the outlook more uncertain for the most capable of the Italians, Giovanni Benelli, 57, the quintessential Vatican bureaucrat who assumed pastoral duties in the See of Florence only last year. For various reasons the other Italian possibilities-Baggio, Poletti, Poma, Siri-face even longer odds...
...smooth style was not the only factor in the election. Winthrop had done his homework. He had talked to many of the assembly's delegates before its meeting Thursday...
...behind, and official action to reap the benefits of a vigorous and directed East Asian policy have been blocked. If nothing else, normalization would certainly add a new dimension and a new flexibility to U.S. foreign policy. It is clear that the Chinese, if not viewed as a dependent factor in U.S.-Soviet policy, are willing to experiment...
...When the economy is going bad, our enrollment jumps," Eckstein said, adding that another factor in the rising enrollment is an increasing number of students headed for law and business schools and "some that actually plan to work...