Word: factor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though one didn't exactly feel like a blithe spirit sitting through the entire three hours of the play, the time factor happily had no effect on the quality factor of this production. And in fact, the cast and crew are to be commended for putting together what could potentially have been one of the biggest snoozers of the season...
Restricting the definition of intelligence has become a detrimental factor in our political culture, with the treatment of Vice President-elect Dan Quayle as the most obvious example. During the campaign, Quayle was mocked for having spent too much time golfing and drinking beer, rather than attending classes and studying during his days at DePauw University. A minor scandal ensued when he refused to release his college transcript...
Tass called the meeting "an extraordinary event," because superpower relations are a determining factor for "the very essence of the world process...
...know why our offenses were not connecting," Delaney Smith said. "Perhaps it was an intimidation factor...
...factor that is pulling editors willy-nilly into the world of management is the decline of family-owned newspapers and the surge in the value of media companies on Wall Street. "It is no longer sufficient for most owners of newspapers to show a good return year in and year out," says Ben Bagdikian, author of The Media Monopoly. "There must be increasingly higher returns because those profits are no longer just something that apply to that individual paper. They go to the parent firm, which is often paying off debt for mergers and expansions...