Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About eight years ago, the company decided that lack of food is not the factor that limits guano bird population. The cold Pacific off Peru is incredibly rich in life; besides such large items as tuna and whale, it contains about 25 million tons of anchovetas, the six-inch fish that is the favorite food of the birds. The company decided that the chief reason why the birds did not increase to the limit of their abundant food supply was that their small islands were overcrowded and not in the right places for harvesting fish efficiently. The birds cannot normally...
Yesterday's session concentrated on offense, but defense--especially pass defense--will be a key factor in determining the varsity's chances on Saturday against what Jordan called "a team that has shown it can score...
Amidst the confusion, each party has a stabilizing factor. In the G.O.P. Dwight Eisenhower could-if he would-be an important force in selecting the nominee. Among Democrats, Harry Truman can-and he will-exert considerable influence. No matter what either man does, the prospect for the U.S. is a yearlong, two-ring political circus that may well be the greatest show of its kind in U.S. history...
...people's native sharpness of mind is another factor in their administrative incompetency since it is characteristic of French leaders to delve into the principles of an issue without reaching the practicalities involved, he maintained...
Columbia should not present the Crimson with a serious challenge. The Lions last week lost by a large score to Yale and Dartmouth in a triangular meet. Pennsylvania, however, is an unknown factor in today's race, since it is the Quaker's first meet this year...