Word: factor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even adjusted for socioeconomic status, almost every known risk factor for childhood obesity occurs at higher rates among racial and ethnic minorities, lead author Medical School professor Elsie M. Taveras said...
...expanding Universal Music's operations, he wants to turn it into a "content-owning rights company," which means developing television and film formats to vie with the two Simons' TV franchises: Fuller's American Idol and Cowell's soon-to-be-arriving X Factor, which is already a big hit in Britain. Among Universal's television projects in Britain is a show called Popstar to Operastar, which features Meatloaf as a judge of La Scala wannabes. And on the theater front, Universal is backing Judy Craymer, the producer of the stage and film musical Mamma Mia!, in her efforts...
...Also a factor in Monday's slide: plans announced by Prudential, a British insurer, to buy the Asian operations of AIG for an eye-popping $35 billion. Much of that would be paid in cash, Prudential said, which would mean swapping huge piles of sterling for dollars. Toss in the relentless pressure from speculators betting on a falling pound, as well as Britain's generally horrible fiscal position, and "sterling has sailed into a perfect storm of negativity," Nick Beecroft, a senior foreign exchange consultant at Saxo Bank, wrote in a research note earlier this week...
...that 13 parents actually discussed it with caregivers. When asked by the study authors, an additional 34% of the parents said that in retrospect, they would have considered intentionally ending their child's life if the child had been in uncontrollable pain. "The fear of pain is the critical factor for parents with regard to hastening death," says Dr. Joanna Wolfe, one of the study's authors and the director of pediatric palliative care at Dana-Farber and Children's Hospital Boston. (See TIME's photo-essay "Cancer Survivors' Inspirational Stories...
...couldn’t have anticipated the Haiti earthquake. However, it demonstrated Jean’s humanitarian bent,” Counter said. “As we came closer to narrowing the choice down, naturally his humanitarian efforts in Haiti were a factor in his selection...