Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...official reason for the recall was that the President wants Democrat Richards to take part in a bipartisan meeting on foreign aid at the White House. But beyond that was a factor that at once highlighted the success of the Richards tour and limited its future usefulness. A few days earlier, the U.S. Sixth Fleet, dispatched to the Eastern Mediterranean to "hold up the hand" of Jordan's King Hussein against his enemies, churned the waters from Syria to Egypt in a dramatic display of U.S. might. At the same time Jordan requested-and Washington immediately supplied...
There is the possibility that unfavorable weather may postpone this race until Sunday. Crimson coach Joe Brown commented on this factor: "If we have the same high winds that we have had for the past two weeks, I hope we can postpone the race, as this sort of weather often ruins a race rowed over the Henley distance...
Although the use of tobacco has become a "calculated risk," Snegireff said, it is only a "mild cancer-producing factor" which does not normally result in malignancies until after a period of at least twenty years of heavy smoking...
...Merk joined Frederick Jackson Turner in the "Westward Movement" course. Some thirty yers erlier Turner had introduced the concept of the "frontier" as the dominant factor in American History...
Many teen-age couples, afraid that the government is about to raise the age of consent to the mid-twenties (it is now 20 for men, 18 for women), are rushing into what the Peking People's Daily last week lambasted as "commando marriages." Another factor worrying Peking's Communist moralists is the rising divorce rate. The Workers' Daily recently had sharp words for a man who sought divorce on the ground that his wife was "too revolting to look at." "In fact," said the Workers' Daily, "this man has already been married for 20 years...