Word: factor
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Entering the doubles matches, Princeton was ahead 4-2, needing only one more match point to move on to the final round. The deciding factor was No. 1 doubles, as Bajin and Magyera were unable to hang on, falling to Princeton's Amanda Hastings-Phillips and Gailer Large...
...national TV--are as worrisome as the jungle fauna. The Swedish show Expedition Robinson, from which Survivor is adapted, ran into controversy when a participant--the first in his group to be ejected--committed suicide just after returning home, although it was not certain that the show was a factor. For Survivor, both medical and psychological support staff will be on call at a nearby base...
...friend to see how bad it was for him with all the ridicule [about his ambition]," says Lynn Schenck, a former Congresswoman who worked in the Brown administration with Davis and is now his chief of staff. "But I think it turned out to be a positive factor...
...lasers currently used for LASIK can sculpt an area no wider than 6.5 mm, or a quarter of an inch. So, as you might expect, patients whose pupils grow wider than the average of about 6 mm in the dark often have the biggest problems. An equally critical factor, however, is the amount of correction you need, measured in negative (-) diopters for nearsightedness and positive (+) diopters for farsightedness. The greater your correction, the more abrupt the transition zone between the sculpted and unsculpted portion of the cornea, and the greater the risk of troublesome glare and halos...
There are many reasons grandparents parent again: child abuse, abandonment and neglect, divorce, teen pregnancy and parental incarceration, as well as death of a parent from illness, accident, suicide or murder. By far the most common reasons are parental abuse of drugs and alcohol--and, increasingly, aids. Factor into that the rising numbers of single-parent families and, says Herbert Stupp, commissioner of the New York City department for the aging, "the chances for any one child of being raised by someone other than [his or her] parent are higher than they used...