Word: factor
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...writer’s humble background became a factor later, when the Signet Society—Harvard’s social club of arts and letters—almost did not accept Updike into their cloistered circle. Then-Crimson President Michael Maccoby ’54 nominated Updike for inclusion in the Signet, but Updike was not able to pay the membership...
...back, and if he stays healthy, he certainly has a shot at recapturing the NCAA individual title.” The senior’s nagging injuries during the fall campaign hampered the performance of the épée squad, which often became the deciding factor in meets. Saturday was no different. Harvard came into its final round of epee against the Red Storm leading and needing only two wins to clinch victory, but it would only get one. Ungar went 5-1 and junior Karl Harmenberg added a 4-2 performance for the squad that easily beat...
...other factor was where Gramm's culpability came in: "the politicization of mortgage lending." Gramm trotted out the Republican bogeymen of the fall election campaign: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Community Reinvestment Act. But then he did something really interesting. He didn't give them all the blame...
...researchers separate the role that improved air quality plays from other factors? Very carefully. "The problem is," says Dr. C. Arden Pope III, the study's lead author and an epidemiologist at Brigham Young University, "if you consider every factor that extends life expectancy and add them up, you almost always end up with more than a 100% improvement." This is because many of the factors overlap, so scientists must take care not to count an extra week, say, as an extra two or three weeks...
...drive up the price of those batteries, which can already add about $10,000 to the cost of a car. Experts say that as production of the lithium-ion packs increases, they're actually getting closer in price to cheaper but less effective nickel-based batteries. Still, a big factor will be whether the demand for them rises as much as anticipated. "It is difficult to predict just how many electric vehicles we will see in the market," says Jennifer Moore, a spokeswoman for Ford, which hopes to have its family of BEVs (battery electric vehicles) on the North American...