Word: factor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Catliff] was as involved as he was in our other games, but not as much of a factor," Shattuck said. "We had to withdraw him to the midfield, so he wasn't in a position to strike at the goal as often...
...June, General Electric absorbed front-running NBC (1985 advertising revenues: $2.7 billion) by purchasing the network's parent, RCA, for $6.3 billion. GE Executive Robert Wright will take over as NBC's president and CEO this week; he is expected to launch his own austerity program. The biggest factor in broadcast television's changing climate is that the networks no longer enjoy the hefty automatic annual increases in advertising rates and volume that they did in the past. This year overall ad revenue for the networks is projected at $8.2 billion, down slightly from $8.3 billion in 1985. By contrast...
...room and take the test right now," said he. Bond refused, as he had before, saying, "I think true leadership is to resist this demagoguery, this McCarthyism." Lewis won a narrow upset, and doubts about Bond's commitment to the antidrug crusade may have been a small factor...
...form of immunotherapy, an experimental technique that has been refined substantially in the past five years as an alternative to surgery, radiation or chemotherapy. Immunotherapy enhances the immune system's disease-fighting capabilities by using some of the body's own chemical agents -- the interferons, tumor-necrosis factor or interleukins, for example. Last year, in one of immunotherapy's most promising clinical trials to date, Rosenberg's team used the hormone-like substance interleukin-2 to turn certain white blood cells into cancer destroyers called lymphokine- activated killers. Reinjected into the bloodstream with more IL-2, LAK cells shrank...
...Civil Rights, black men earned 42% as much as white men in 1940; by 1980 the figure was up to 69%. The rise is due partly to narrowing differences in education and to a shift in black employment from farming to industry and government. Decreasing discrimination may be another factor, though the rate of black economic progress was as great during the 20 years before 1960 as afterward...