Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marked recovery." Bank loans to business were also down in October to a total $31.3 billion, a decrease of $796 million since midyear v. an increase of $1.2 billion in 1956 during the same period. The climb in the cost of living was also slowing down. Still another factor was personal incomes: down $1 billion between September and October to an annual rate of $345.5 billion, though still 3½% higher than October...
...possible top contributors, Oppenheimer being a prominent, though controversial example. It is difficult and expensive to clear a national of even the most friendly foreign country--and after all, the bulk of basic research in atomic physics and rocketry has been done by foreigners. Moreover, such a disqualifying factor as having even distant relatives in a Soviet-bloc country, though sensible in general, has become an ironclad rule. But perhaps the most outstanding excess of the men in padded shoes is demanding exhaustive security clearance for minor and non-sensitive posts: file clerks, janitors, and supply-room employees...
...passing was the main factor in the upset of Princeton, but Yale's use of a man in motion, along with a trailer back, baffled the Tigers and gave the Bulldogs an added boost. Yale alternated between the slot-T and the straight-T formations for the first time Saturday, following the pattern the Crimson had employed against the Tigers with some success...
MOSCOW, Nov. 17--A top Soviet artillery man said today Russia's intercontinental ballistic missiles will be the deciding factor in any future...
...other major factor in buoying up the West Indian economy has been a series of United Kingdom grants in the amount of several millions of pounds which have been used to build badly needed schools, hospitals and roads, as well as a number of experimental projects like housing projects. The latter have not proved either attractive to the natives or able to keep pace with the need. The University College, recently moved out of refugee barracks, answers a deep and long-felt need...