Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Increased pressure at lower depths is a factor in keeping Dr. Scholander's arctic fish in circulation, but is not enough to explain the mystery...
...least thirty weeks during their college careers. A student may work one summer with a business group, the next with a labor organization, and perhaps the third with a governmental agency, earning course credit for his work. Practical experience in the pre-college years is also a definite factor in the School's admissions decisions...
...About 85% of the basic causes of suicide lie in mental disturbances and nothing else, less than 15% in organic disease. "And even here the mental factor tips the balance-it is not so often because of cancer, but because of indigestion that makes a man afraid he has cancer...
Auto Supply Down. Behind the new housing surge lay plentiful mortgage money, plenty of money in the bank (savings last month hit a new high of $25.5 billion), and that vital factor that no economist can assess, the willingness to buy. In the first half of 1954, said the Commerce Department, spending for personal consumption hit a new peak annual rate of $233 billion. The outlook for the rest of the construction industry also seemed bright. The Associated General Contractors of America polled its members (80% of the industry) and noted that building outlays of all types this year should...
...That factor and the Defense Department order to cut back the non-flying enrollment are undoubtedly the unfortunate reasons that are scaring the freshmen away this year," said Col. Frank P. Bostrom, professor of Air Science...