Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When will inflationary pressures ease? Reserve's Martin did not give an opinion, but both Budget Director Percival Brundage and Treasury Secretary George Humphrey testified that Government spending, a prime inflationary factor, is on the increase, largely for defense. The new spending will trim the fiscal 1957 budget surplus to $1.2 billion instead of the predicted $1.7 billion. Next twelvemonth the Government may spend even more, possibly as much as $1.5 billion more than the estimated $71.8 billion budget. What all this means is that despite pleas from every quarter the U.S. cannot even consider a tax cut this...
...teaching fellows, usually second or third-year graduate students, who have the greatest contact with the undergraduate, and who are at the same time subject to the greatest academic-scholastic pressures. When their promotions are considered, their teaching record is considered, but it hardly the determining factor. They realize that the good scholar will probably gain the instructorship, rather than the very good teacher...
...practical terms however, there is no chance of this within the foreseeable future. Budgetary considerations and old-fashioned conservatism would prevent any immediate universality for the plan. There is another great factor, a lingering belief that many of the students in the College actually learn more because of the grade stimulus than they would without...
Local 254 regards its paid, full-time employees as a decisive factor in its favor, however. "The president of the HUERA is a janitor," notes Sullivan, a recent graduate of the Trade Union Program of the Graduate School of Business Administration. "That's the main difference. We are professionals, working all day, everyday for our members." He adds that officers who are not financially dependent upon the University could bargain more freely...
...Another factor, which applies to soft drinks and hard liquor as well as tobacco, has to do with pampering oneself" and feeling guilty about doing so. Dr. Ernest Dichter, a Viennese psychologist now practicing MR at Croton on Hudson. N.Y., and one of the pioneers in the field, concluded that every time a "self-indulgent" product is sold, the buyer's guilt feelings must be assuaged by couching the advertising in terms to make the self-indulgence morally acceptable; for example, by saying you deserve candy...