Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ernest L. Wynder, supplements some of his reports made at Atlantic City (see above). Smoking, and especially long-continued and heavy smoking of cigarettes, "plays a role in the causation of lung cancer," says Wynder. He is quick to add: "This statement does not deny the role of other factors." What to do? Dr. Wynder does not prescribe total abstinence, but that old standby, moderation. He also hopes that fiiters can be improved or that the cancer-causing factor in tobacco can be identified and taken out in manufacture...
...about 183) three weeks before the nation went to the polls. What surprised both Britons and Americans was that the market kept rising in the face of a paralyzing national railway strike (see FOREIGN NEWS). Most financial and political experts, trying to explain this paradox, calculated that one big factor was an end to Labor's threat to renationalize steel and long-distance trucking, nationalize chemicals and machine tools, etc., and the promise of widepread expansion of industry...
...survey also disclosed that many saints were educated or trained at a monastery or convent and that almost a majority were "born potential saints" rather than being converted to saintliness by various catastrophies. The study's figures concluded, among other things, that the saints' altrustic nature was a major factor in an extraordinary longevity and vigorous health...
...greatest single factor which the Conservatives have to thank for their optimism is their own Government's perspicuity in having called a snap election this spring. Sir Anthony Eden need not by law have risked his newly-acquired office until October, 1956. But the talking points of existing prosperity and probable talks with Russia "at the summit" were too good to pass by. Besides, the Labour party was just at that time embarrassingly split by internal feuds. Its moderate wing, represented by former Prime Minister Clement Attlee, had been driven rightwards by attacks from the Bevanites on the left...
...muscle means cutting or tearing a number of nerves which then offer the virus particles a direct pathway to the brain or spine. This seems plausible because inoculations against other diseases, e.g., diphtheria, may trigger a polio infection even when no polio virus is introduced and the only common factor is the use of the needle...