Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...African territories. Said he: "On the day when the [European] Common Market . . . has been created, [France] would like to promote the formation of a Eurafrican whole. Europe in. its entirety, bringing to Africa its capital and its techniques, should enable the immense African continent to become an essential factor in world politics...
...they want to go will never leave. They will go on, as now, behaving on the job as if "there's no future in it"; they have given up hope of making for themselves in Britain the kind of life they want. In short, the main limiting factor on opportunity in Britain's welfare state is that so many of its people believe there is no real opportunity. The debilitating mood of the psychological emigrant pervades the country...
Extra-curricular activities are also important in the selection process, but only as "a secondary factor." If two students have done equally good scholastic work, the decision will almost invariably be made in favor of the one who has also found time to indulge in some worthwhile outside activity...
...million records. The growing sideburn cult and the wearing of "I Love Elvis" skirts are further indications of his adoption as an idol by the American adolescent sub-culture. The nature of the songs he records, mainly concerning romantic love, but often lack of romantic success, is an important factor contributing to his popularity, as is his emergence from the especially other-directed youth culture. The average teen-ager can vicariously share Presley's easily-acquired wealth, his cars, power over women, and seeming rebellion against adult authority...
Four years ago, the guard towers spindled out from Saigon mile after mile along the main roads, outposts of frightened men in a teeming darkness of shadowy figures and shadowy hate. One such guard tower was a central factor in Graham Greene's Quiet American, a semi-novel purporting to display the hopeless struggle of French colonialism to save the truncated country from the onrushing tide of the Communist Viet Minh. As late as two years ago, touring Columnist Joseph Alsop pronounced South Viet Nam doomed. And the French, embarrassed at seeing the U.S. succeed with South Viet...