Word: factor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while Caram, who leads Harvard's largest orchestra, agrees that prestige is often a determining factor in first-years' decisions, he says by shopping orchestras--attending multiple groups' rehearsals before settling on one--first-years can get a better feel for the groups...
...third-year law student named John Whitehead interviewed a congressional candidate on the subject: "I think the definition should include any criminal acts, plus a willful failure of the President to fulfill his duty to uphold and execute the laws of the United States," the candidate replied. "The third factor that I think constitutes an impeachable offense would be willful, reckless behavior in office, just totally incompetent conduct in the office and the disregard of the necessities that the office demands." Years later, Whitehead would found the Rutherford Institute, which financed a sexual-harassment lawsuit aimed at toppling a President...
...terms of the fiascoes, synergy does not help us understand all that much. Synergy might have created a climate where Steve Glass could thrive, but it did not force him to lie again and again. Synergy is not even the critical factor behind CNN's botched Tailwind tale, though the fact that the story was both aired on CNN and reported in Time did magnify the damage. Still, the idea of synergy does help to explain the insanity that is the media's coverage of Zippergate. As Clinton Press Secretary Mike McCurry noted, "the press has but one speed...
...larger factor, however, is that hiring companies see the market's downturn both as short-term and as only a part of a larger-successful-economy...
...their capital, long-term interest rates continued their slide to 5.3%, a silver lining for the U.S. in the cloud over emerging markets. Those low rates in turn have boosted the used-housing market, which recorded an all-time high of houses sold in July. Housing values, another important factor in Americans' calculation of their wealth, are rising smartly at about 5% a year. Unemployment stands at 4.5%, nearly a 28-year low, and only 1.8% for those with college degrees. Thanks to rising productivity, real wages have been rising for the first time in nearly three decades without spurring...