Word: factor
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...Another factor in the competition is the competing allegiances of the DNC's top decision-makers. The general chair, Roy Romer, is a former Colorado governor, while the national chair, Massachusetts native Steven Grossman, harbors a soft spot for Boston. Grossman has termed himself an "objective cheerleader," who is rooting for Boston in his heart but looking at the process objectively, according to Wyche...
...lawyer's responsibility to represent whatever party comes to you. If everyone is fairly represented, then justice will be served," Cheeseman said. "The unpopularity of a client is not a factor...
That should be enough to make the judge think twice before ordering Capano's death. Not to mention another mitigating factor--the testimony of Marguerite Capano, the convicted murderer's 76-year-old mother. "My son is not a murderer," she pleaded at the sentencing hearing. "I don't care what anyone says, they will never convince me of that. I love him. I need him." What good will it do to kill...
...FRANKENSTEIN FACTOR...
...radically different environments and is biased against poorer kids," says Etta Kralovec, director of educational studies at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. In the early '90s she surveyed Maine high school dropouts, who all cited their inability to keep up with homework as a major factor in the decision to leave school. Kralovec's solution to the inequities: "Homework should be done in school by all students--poor, middle and upper class--so that they all have the same access to computers and teachers." Boston's Dorchester High School has taken a step in that direction...