Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arco, Idaho materials-testing reactor (TIME, March 8, 1954). but the news of their earlier and more violent birth was not declassified until this week. Probable reason: no one was supposed to know that UJ-238, which can be made to fission in a thermonuclear ex plosion, was a factor in Test Mike...
...hard-hitting Ted Williams. When he broke off a legal skirmish with his wife and returned to baseball, Ted found the Sox in seventh place; at week's end they were in fourth, only 3½ games off the pace. Though Ted's big bat was a factor in the resurgence of the Red Sox, most of the credit goes to their little (5 ft. 6 in., 150 lbs.) shortstop, Billy Klaus. A veteran castoff from the Indians, Cubs, Braves and Giants, Billy, at 26, has been batting back and forth between the minors and majors for nine...
...American Desert Sir: Congratulations on your excellent July 25 spread of pictures and story on the Pacific Southwest . . . Never was a truer word written than your assertion that ";water has always been the limiting factor to the desert's growth" . . . When federal western reclamation was authorized in 1902, some critics labeled it unnecessary, impractical and visionary ... I heard the same cries of "visionary" and "impractical" when I was on the . .. survey party which fixed the location of Hoover Dam in 1929. The growth and prosperity of the Imperial, Yuma and Coachella Valleys and metropolitan southern California would not have...
...Another factor influencing the FPC decision was that the federal project, even if approved, might have been stalled indefinitely by congressional reluctance to grant the necessary funds. Bills calling for the Government dam were sidetracked in both Houses in the past session. On the other hand, Idaho Power, under FPC specifications, must have all of its dams built and generators running...
...isolation, learning difficulties and organic disorders-especially of the central nervous system." True enough, some of these causes involve the home, but it takes a combination of several, said Dr. Bender, to push "a particular child along the road to delinquency." Even under such a malign constellation, some other factor is still needed to turn a child into a delinquent, Dr. Bender emphasized. Putting psychiatric jargon aside, she called this simply "happenstance...