Word: factor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policy of surrender" and made clear that he thought the Saudi policy of "moderation" on oil prices had done nothing to advance the Arab cause in the Middle East peace negotiations. Saudi Representative Abdul Hadi Taher replied bluntly that Middle East politics should scarcely be "the most important factor" in OPEC price policy...
...UMass did not control the ball offensively. Our defense held them and that was the key factor in the ballgame...
...utilities were ordering 40 new plants annually. But last year utilities ordered only four new nuclear plants and deferred or canceled plans to build seven more. An important reason for the slowdown is that demand for electric power has not risen as rapidly as forecasters anticipated. Yet another major factor is that delays-some necessary, others merely obstructionist-have stretched completion time of a plant to ten to twelve years. The possibility that plants now abuilding may never be allowed to operate has frightened some power companies, which have no desire to be stuck with costly white elephants...
Neither race nor family income appears to be a relevant factor in the emergence of suicidal tendencies. But Paulson notes that many of the children come from families where "there tends to be a concept of guilt induced as a means of controlling the child's behavior." For such troubled kids, adds U.C.L.A. Child Psychiatrist Gabrielle Carlson, suicide is not just a way of escaping problems; the child often blames himself for family troubles and comes to believe that he deserves...
Puig-Antich has also been studying the families of suicidal children. He has found that half of all relatives, going back to grandparents, are either alcoholics or depressives. Such familial patterns have led some researchers to wonder whether there may be a genetic factor in the kind of depression that sometimes leads to suicide. "My hypothesis is that there is one," says Puig-Antich. Yet like other scientists, he concedes that the tendency of depression to run in families may only mean that distraught parents often pass on their troubles to their children. Whatever the cause of the suicidal drive...