Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon after the scientific world heard about these medical experiments, astronomers realized how useful the screen intensifier might be in their business, especially for viewing the planets. The limiting factor in taking pictures of Mars, for instance, is not the efficiency or magnifying power of the telescope. It is the wobbling of the image because of irregularities that are almost always present in the earth's atmosphere. If the plate is exposed for more than a small fraction of a second. the dancing image blurs the picture with movement...
...most interesting fact in U.S. publishing today is that the paperbacks have become respectable. Cheap paperback reprints and originals have been published in the U.S. for more than a century without becoming a stable factor in the book business. But today, some of the smartest U.S. publishers privately concede that hard-cover books cost too much. They also know that there are far more potential readers than there are customers willing to pay current hard-cover prices. Result: alongside the diminishing flood of glossy-covered quarter dreadfuls is an increasing stream of serious paperbacks, including the finest books ever written...
...sided gift, with nothing demanded in return. It must be made clear that the U.S. is not backing down or making a concession by extending recognition to Mao Tse-tung. It would be merely acknowledging the fact of Communist control of China, whether Americans like this factor not, in an effort to settle major areas of disagreements through negotiation rather than by armed conflict, the only alternative...
...Another factor besides differential room rents contributes t the concentrations of wealthier students in the newer dormitories. The Dean's Office, in sending out room applications to incoming freshmen, does not ask what dormitory the student would prefer. If the applicant should happen to name Wigglesworth, however, he is invariably assigned to live in Wigglesworth for in any other dormitory he has put down. Incoming freshmen who are familiar with Harvard through family or school background are usually aware of this Dean's Office idiosyncrasy. Thus they fill up the better dorms, while the uninitiated freshmen suffer. Fortunately this problem...
...Blue Cross, correcting the deficiencies in that program. Or the University could undertake a self-supporting mutual insurance plan of its own without outside financial arrangements. In any event, only proposals meeting the standards of adequate coverage would be considered. Economy for the student should then be the determining factor in the decision. Hygiene officials estimate that such a program might be instituted at a cost of only $50 to $55 a year for each student, with part of that sum devoted to the continuing upkeep of the Hygiene Department...