Word: factor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government already has them. "We've run a miserable campaign," conceded a prime-ministerial colleague. One factor was the heavy security for the Prime Minister, the target of recent threats by the Irish Republican Army. She has been surrounded by plainclothes police in bulletproof vests, and her schedule has been kept secret until the last moment...
...vice chairman of Merrill Lynch Capital Markets and a former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency: "The most important thing he has to do is give the markets convincing evidence that he is free of influence from the White House." Without that evidence, foreign investment in U.S. securities, a crucial factor in underwriting the budget deficit, might well dry up. That in turn would undoubtedly lead to a vicious spiral of increased interest rates to woo back the creditors, resulting ultimately in a slowdown of economic growth and the doleful prospect of U.S. and possibly even global recession...
...University holds that workers will not vote for a union because there are not significant grievances, Director of Personnel Daniel Cantor says. But labor experts, union leaders and many workers say that the HUCTW effort transcends simple grievances and addresses the issue of empowerment, which is criticial factor underlying any specific grievance...
Attitudes are changing as well, officials say. "What we are seeing is that people are less apt to hide behind the safety factor of calling it a gay disease," says Dartmouth's Turco. "A lot of people won't change their habits, but the information is there, and we are getting more of an educated society...
...form of consumer debt, while lenders vie frantically for customers and market share. But amid the rush, cautionary voices are warning about the dangers of the popular loans, and the misleading nature of some of the hype. The major worry: that some unwary consumers may be undercutting an integral factor in most American savings portfolios, the family home...