Word: factor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HAVEN--Having never beaten a team in its own home gym can be an intimidating factor for even the Ivy League's front-runner...
...encounter last week dramatized a disconcerting truth: not only has television become the controlling factor in the selection of an American President, it also has a life of its own. Television is not a counterreality, exactly, but it is no true mirror either, or mere observer. Sometimes television seems a form of insanity...
...factor in the Bruin comeback was the absence of the Crimson's leading scorer, Hayes, who was forced to leave the game with a knee injury...
...look around and note the saturation points. American farming, which took so steep a tumble in the early 1980s, has recovered lately but only to a level where the surviving farmers look toward anxious stability, not flush times. Good news for American farmers and bad news factor each other out continually. Exports are rising, but the price of corn, for instance, is less than half what it was in 1982, and wheat has fallen 33% since 1980. The Wall Street Journal described the farm issue in a Jan. 8 headline: WHAT WAS A CRISIS BECOMES ONLY A PROBLEM. For every...
...problems by tossing out the troublesome low achievers. But this hardly represents a solution to a community's problems. Rather, it just moves those problems from the classroom onto the street, where the dropouts drift into trouble or plain despair. "In many cases the school was the most stabilizing factor in their lives," says Alcena Boozer, head of an outreach program for dropouts in Portland, Ore. "Then that's gone, and nothing's there...