Word: factor
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...crossover factor. Bush's poor showing among independents and Democrats could become a problem. Just 45% of independents and 27% of Democrats view Bush favorably; Dukakis is looked on favorably by 56% of independents and 45% of Republicans. Republicans admire Bush by an overwhelming margin (79% are favorable), but he must reach beyond his own political family to assemble a majority in November...
While the impending tenure vote on Associate Professor of History Drew R. McCoy was not a primary factor in their honoring him, council members said it would test the role students can have in department hiring decisions...
...comparative analysis between our approaches. Who can excite the crowds? Jackson. Jesse also has a definitive plan and a budget, for fighting drugs, for building housing." That kind of specificity, along with Jackson's dubious claim that his support base is far broader than Dukakis', is also a factor in the public phase of negotiation...
While the conflict is only one factor in Nicaragua's economic decline in recent years, an end to the fighting would probably result in an immediate, if small, increase in agricultural production. And for hundreds of thousands of campesinos in contested areas where the gun is king, peace would remove a lot of fear from their lives. "Farmers are often too frightened to work their lands properly," says Cruz, who has had crops and animals taken by the guerrillas. "And what is the point of producing things that get blown up by land mines on the way to market...
...name-brand college, says Steinbrecher, "has become a status symbol, like a Gucci shirt." Moreover, the crush of applicants from affluent white suburbs has created a generation of qualified look-alikes, all of whom simply cannot get in, especially when schools are seeking diverse student bodies. A third factor is what admissions people call the scalp takers: top students who sit on a fistful of acceptances, hogging places that might have been offered to someone else. And in a kind of ripple effect from the leading schools, both the admissions criteria and the intensity of the marketing hype have gone...