Word: factor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Athletic Department's recruiting efforts are never the determining factor in the admission of athletic prospects...
Women are burdened with family responsibilities that affect their campaigning, the panelists said. State Representative Barbara Patton (D-New York), who is the single mother of two, said that in her career family life is a "big factor...
...obfuscate the 'cost-effective' argument," says Spurgeon Keeny, president of the Arms Control Association. "Supporters will concede that Phase 1 isn't cost effective but will argue that the ultimate, undefined SDI system would be." With so little genuine technological advancement, why the sudden push for phased deployment? One factor is clearly the pleas from SDI supporters in Congress for some evidence of progress to justify the program's budget, which this year calls for a 60% increase, to $5.2 billion. Weinberger and others add that early deployment would encourage the Soviets to be more cooperative in arms control...
...bottles and not much draft beer, so Catamount would be bottled without additives, and, most important, there would be no pasteurization, a process that gives beer shelf life but that, Mason and other purists feel, "heat shocks" the beer and ruins its flavor. (Control of bacteria is not a factor -- the alcohol does that -- but cold-filtered, unpasteurized beer should be stored at cool temperatures and should be drunk within three months. Like bread, beer is really good only when it is fresh. Virtually all imported beer must be pasteurized to survive the lengthy shipping process. In the U.S., most...
...working conditions in Spanish cigarette factories, instead of sexual obsession, violence and death. In fact Pountney did not go far enough. Micaela -- a character not found in Merimee's gritty original novella -- was her conventional, boring bourgeois self, and the reserved British performers did not really get the sleaze factor right. This should have been Carmen: Beyond Thunderdome. Still, it boasted a brilliant performance by Mezzo Sally Burgess in the title role and some crisp conducting from Paul Daniel...