Word: factor
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...degree or another. Especially on a college campus, especially at a school like Harvard, the average student probably feels any number of these ways to a large degree on even the most average of days. Add to this the fact that stress itself may be a precipitating factor in the development of hyperthyroidism, and overachieving Ivy League undergraduates suddenly become poster child candidates for Graves' Disease. In fact, the closest thing America has to a poster child for Graves' Disease, President Bush, is himself a Yalie...
...Another factor in Fleiszer's decision was the greater probability that Fleiszer, a product of Westmount, Quebec, would make an immediate impact...
Fritzner's background is an important factor in this controversy. Can one argue that the poster is racist, if the artist was depicting scenes from his own life in Haiti? Though it is more likely that Fritzner's work is honest and meaningful rather than a portrayal of blacks as watermelon-eaters, given the loaded image of this poster and the stereotype it evokes of Southern blacks, the Lowell House dining hall may be an inappropriate place to hang it, particularly because it was purchased by the former dining hall manager as a nice piece of decoration. Nonetheless, these issues...
...loan or buying stocks--as charming and irrelevant as classical notions that the sun orbits the earth. Because the system will constantly monitor your net worth, you'll be able to draw instantly on assets in one area to create liabilities in another. These computer-run accounts will factor in everything from the weather to the age of your children in plotting out your future demands. "Yesterday's income and today's wealth will always be known with a high degree of confidence," Sanford predicted in his 1993 speech. "Wealth accounts will be instantly tapped via 'wealth cards.' For example...
...bank "blows up," as Barings PLC did in 1995 after 28-year-old Nicholas Leeson bet the house and lost? Industry insiders--the folks who have designed the systems--argue that the infrastructure they have built is secure enough to survive any tampering and that the markets themselves will factor in the risks of rogue or inexperienced traders. "There is no chance that a money market will fail and threaten the underpinnings of the system," says Cone of Fidelity Investments. This new electronic world challenges everything we thought we knew about finance, but maybe not what we know about economics...