Word: factor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cancer patients often suffer unnecessarily because doctors hold back narcotics for fear their patients will become addicted -- even when they have only weeks or months to live. This casts doubt over the profession's reassurances that pain will be controlled. And the dread of unrelenting pain is one factor that may encourage patients and doctors alike to blur the line between letting death occur and causing...
...Another factor helping the Quakers was questionable home-court officiating. The Crimson was called for 27 fouls while Penn was nailed for only...
MORE does not mean better. A larger pool of eligible Asian-Americans does not necessarily translate to better candidates, just as a longer paper does not mean an A. Quantity is not the deciding factor: the Admissions Committee. I hope and believe, is seeking quality students who will make unique contributions to the University, cannot be manipulated as statistics are--against the existence of quotas arises when you closely examine the entire admissions process. According to David H. Eun '89. who has worked as a minority recruiter for the Admissions Committee for the last two years, the applications meetings occur...
...post factor" didn't make a difference for the Crimson, as Harvard defeated the Tigers...
Twenty-five years after the Crisis, a large number of new writing and scholarly meetings have commemorated the world's closest brush with thermonuclear war. Even in 1988, the Cuban Missile Crisis held its own as a key factor in the debate over strategic issues and superpower relations--even to the point of coloring current arguments over the INF and START treaties. Politicians, scholars, and journalists have turned to the Crisis to draw out lessons about nuclear weapons, diplomacy, and crisis management. The publication of surprising evidence in this winter's International Security--a transcript of secret tapes which recorded...