Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once he gets a leg up on a horse, a look of fierce and scornful concentration takes over Hartack's features. By then he knows that he is a big factor in the calculations of thousands of bettors, and he is constitutionally unable to give them anything less than the best he has. That best is so good that few trainers bother him with pre-race instructions. "He's like Ben Hogan, concentrating shot by shot," says Trainer Tommy Kelly. "He doesn't look right or left or smile. I tell you, Bill'd get the mostest...
...Another factor is retail sales, on which there is no comprehensive up-to-date statistic. The most current is the Federal Reserve's weekly index of department-store sales, which shows that sales are on the rise. But since it covers, only 6.7% of all retail sales and does not include many important items, e.g., autos, economists are not sure whether overall spending is still on the rise or has dropped...
...start up negotiations with the U.S.S.R. leading to the neutralization of Germany and later of Europe (TIME, Dec. 23), and just before the NATO conference he came perilously close to undercutting the U.S. position by implying that NATO was an obstacle to reaching a settlement with the Russians. One factor that gave added weight to Kennan's pronouncements: he was billed in Europe as a Democratic Party foreign-policy expert and a potential future Democratic Secretary of State...
Only at week's end, after many a Briton had recoiled at this unseemly consanguineous attack on a man whose prestige was a crucial factor in the delicate situation in Cyprus, did the Foots admit that the whole thing was their notion of a harmless family joke...
...undefeated varsity squash team will travel to Williamstown today to meet an underdog Williams squad. Coach Jack Barnaby expects the contest to be the toughest so far this season, however, and warns that a strange court is a powerful leveling factor. The Crimson, 8 to 1 victor over a strong Army team last month, sports a 5-0 record in college play...