Word: factor
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Another standard was set by the Stadium, completed in 1903 at a cost of $320,000. The first reinforced concrete stadium in America, Harvard's new sports complex proved a major factor in the adoption of a rule allowing forward passes...
Such pressures appeared to be a factor last spring when Graham Allison, dean of the School of Government, announced the awarding of five public service medals. One was to Attorney General Edwin Meese. Many Harvard voices protested that the Meese medal was a transparent currying of favor with the Reagan Administration. But the award stood...
...increasingly emotional immigration issue may be a factor in the campaigning for next January's national elections. The opposition Social Democrats have already reproached the government for "playing with people's lives." In response, Kohl's Christian Democrats wish to amend the constitution to admit refugees fleeing political persecution but not those simply seeking a better life in an affluent society. That would theoretically bar more than 80% of this year's newcomers. Enforcing such rules, however, may not be easy. As one airline executive in Frankfurt observed last week, "How can we tell the difference between acceptable political refugees...
There is hope, however. "Biotechnology is the most important revolutionary factor that has occurred in the agriculture world," said George M. Moffet, professor of agriculture and business...
...Democrats zeroed in on another factor: the U.S. trade deficit, which hit a record $148.5 billion last year and is running even higher in 1986. Their purpose seems to be to build support for import-limiting legislation. But the trade deficit has hurt farmers, who have lost foreign markets, and smokestack industries, beset by import competition, far more than service and high-tech businesses...