Word: factor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...annually to set undergraduate financial aid packages; and, finally those willing to comment say such practices are done publicly with the assumption that agreements avoid "unethical bidding wars" for top students. They argue that the schools thus can spread around financial aid money to the most needy, mitigate the factor of money in obtaining higher education and hence serve the public good...
...synthesizing factor remains the religious observation that unites both peoples and generations. Yom Kippur, the most sacred day on the calendar, symbolizes that unity...
...Neill crystallized electoral wisdom in his dictum "All politics is local," many editors seem to have concluded that all journalism should be local too. Reportage from distant places tends to be limited to the melodramatic and gauged by personal relevance: either the it-could-have-been-me human-interest factor or the larger-implications factor of how, although the news consumer was untouched by a particular event, similar ones in the future might have greater impact...
...determining if a membership club is public or private. These include: "The degree of selectiveness in membership requirements...the use of facilities by nonmembers...and the the performance of a public function." And even if the MCAD chooses not use Baker's framework, he insists that "No one factor is required, and many are absent in clubs which are nonetheless held to be places of public accommodation...
Silber said that B.U. has no intention "tosimply replace funds," adding that Chelsea shouldstabilize its own budget crisis. "[The budget]won't be a factor so far as B.U.'s decision tostay or go is concerned," he said. "We'll do thebest we can with the resources we have...