Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little for ships and planes to haul profitably back to the States, the freight charges boost retail prices to alarming levels. A Seattle dollar shrinks about 19? in Juneau, 29? in Anchorage, 35? in Fairbanks. Wages consequently run 15-40% higher than comparable Stateside payrolls, and that is a factor that holds back large-scale investment from Stateside in Alaska's potential...
...that babies were to be grown in laboratories like fungi, happy citizens were to be conditioned by sleep teaching and there was to be no pain, no disease and-theoretically-no independent thought. Now, says Huxley, "The nightmare of total organization . . . has emerged from the safe, remote future." Main factor: the birth boom that has jumped the world's population from 700 million at the time of the American Revolution to 2.8 billion today...
...disparage North Carolina, Presbyterian, or Amherst, all of whom had strong squads and most successful seasons. But the fact remains that against Presbyterian, Junta lost both singles and doubles, and that neither Junta nor Allen Goldman was able to play against Amherst. Fatigue was probably the biggest factor in the team's loss to North Carolina, whom the varsity crushed here by an 8-1 margin...
...Gaulle first appeared on TIME'S cover in 1941, when he alone spoke for a defeated but unyielding France. He appeared on two more TIME covers before retiring to private life. "Without one being able to say what factor or what event will provoke the necessary change in the regime," he said in 1955, "one can only say that it will come." As the Fourth Republic flounders from crisis to crisis, the De Gaulle alternative is more and more discovered in France. A haughty, stubborn man, sensitive to history, conscious of legality, he was against the domination...
...This race is sanctioned," said the young man, "by the Intercollegiate Sports Car Authority. It will probably be the determining factor in the New England Collegiate Championships. We have had no fatalities in this race. We don't intend to. If one driver rolls his car, that's all. If a driver spins out or has four wheels off the track, he will be disqualified. Drivers will go up the course one at a time. They will be timed automatically. The best time wins." He looked at the drivers. "Any questions...