Word: factor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wind played a major factor during the second day of races. Even though the Black and White led by a comfortable margin, the windy conditions added drama to the races...
...hard to tell our ranking because most of the schools we beat this weekend, we lost to last spring in the Nationals. You have to take into account that our home advantage was a major factor in our victory," Barron said...
...skating show is run almost exclusively by Eliot House students. Approximately 100 students regularly work on the show, and more than half the house gets involved during the weekend of the performances. "It's been a wonderful integrating factor," says Eliot Associate Master Arline G. Heimert. "It really pulls the house together...
...court judged neither the text-books, nor the coherence of the convictions from which the fundamentalists' argued--only the "sincerity" of their beliefs. In any normal case, say a murder trial, evidence is presented to reconstruct what happened outside the court and who was in the wrong. The deciding factor in the textbook case, however, was not a comparison of textbook content and a system of belief like Christianity or creationism, but a judgment of the authenticity of whatever the plaintiff chose to present. That is, the evidence was the proceeding itself...
...campaigns eventually had an effect. "Many chief executives are tired of being hassled by the protests and the divestment campaigns," says Stephen Blank, senior associate at New York's Multinational Strategies consulting firm. "This is not the kind of publicity they want." Some firms might have endured the hassle factor if they could have pointed to their South African operations as solid profit centers. But fewer and fewer have been able to do so. GM has lost money in South Africa since 1982, and IBM, while profitable, has been losing market share to Japanese computer makers. Last week...