Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Manzù says that form-and not religion-is his chief interest, the church has been a major factor in his career. His interest in art was awakened in the church in his native city of Bergamo, Italy, across the Alps from
That there should be over 300 people at a concert of twentieth-century chamber music is remarkable. This was, however, not the only remarkable factor in Monday evening's all-Hindemith program at Paine Hall...
...perennial case of "one of our hospitals is missing." Beginning ten years ago, to care for the needy ill of the mushrooming oil-rich city and surrounding Harris County, $12 million was set aside. It was plain that Jefferson Davis Hospital was hopelessly inadequate. Overcrowding was rated a major factor this year in the deaths of 18 babies in a staphylococcus epidemic (TIME. March 31). Still no hospital was in sight...
...June 1957, when 42% were fatalistically resigned to a perpetual price spiral, only 28% of U.S. consumers now expect prices of household goods and clothing to keep on going up; the remaining 72% look for mixed movement, no change or a general decline. Thus price becomes an increasingly important factor. Concludes the survey: "Consumer desires and needs for durable goods, homes and additions or repairs to homes are [hardly diminished]. The decline in consumer spending is due to postponement of discretionary expenditures rather than to saturation...
...factor that helped trigger the rise is the upturn in the Canadian economy, heralded several weeks ago by a dramatic drop in unemployment. Canadians were showing new optimism, which always engenders speculation, and the boom was concentrated in speculative stocks that had gone ignored for months. Said a Toronto exchange member: "I don't think this would have happened four months ago, no matter what the drilling reports were. There was too much recession mood around then. But the thinking has been changing. It's a sign people are starting to think big again." Canadians gleefully termed...