Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...larger revolt than anticipated by U.S. diplomats, and a crucial factor in their misreading...
Medical researchers believe they have tracked down the long-sought factor in human blood that gives it a sweeping power to destroy invading germs. Without such built-in protection against infection, man could hardly survive the daily onslaught by billions of microorganisms to which he is exposed. "Something" saves him, but the nature of that something has remained as elusive as the elixir of life...
...discovered, count only five points. Fields are ten yards longer than the standard 100-yd. gridirons at home; end zones are 25 rather than ten yards deep; kicks that carry over the end zone or are not run out by a defending player score one point (a rouge), a factor that helps eliminate tie games. Fields are also wider than at home (65 yds. v. 53⅓), tempting offensive teams to try wide, sweeping, running plays...
...Gimmicks. Not all of filmdom's new gimmicks turned out so well. Most moviemen were agreed that 3-D is dead. But 3-D had left some benefits behind. Said M-G-M Production Boss Dore Schary: "The defeating factor was the eyeglasses. But 3-D was . . . responsible for the upturn in the movie business . . . It showed that the people wanted something new and would...
...industrial production index itself is no longer the statistical touchstone it once was. A whole new group of nonmanufacturing industries has grown up and must be counted, notably such huge service industries as airlines and buses, trucks, hotels and entertainment. The booming construction industry is not a factor in FRB's industrial index, though it is one of the greatest strengths of the present-day economy...