Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upturn? A "decisive" factor, explained Agriculture's Economist Frederick V. Waugh, was "government programs," e.g., the Administration-sponsored soil bank, which last September began to pay farmers to withdraw 12 million acres from production and put them to soil-conserving measures. The figures bore him out: of the 1956 rise-$400 million over last year's $11.3 billion-some $250 million is from soil-bank payments. Next year, when up to 45 million acres are to be set aside, the payments will be that much higher, and so should be the cut in the surplus. The hope...
Gradually young Dr. Selye (rhymes with tell yea) convinced himself that the common factor was stress. Now, 31 years later and after half a lifetime devoted to studying stress and theorizing about it, Selye has subjected himself to what he frankly admits has been a stressful experience. From millions of words in technical journals he has distilled the essence of his facts and theories into a layman's guide, The Stress of Life, published this week (McGraw-Hill...
...cites the "abject failure of the state government" to assume its proper "financial and functional responsibilities" as the factor which forces cities and towns "to an excessive use of the property tax in order to meet their mounting obligations...
...used, bear this in mind: they will not destroy our capacity to retaliate, and just as sure as day follows night, that retaliation would take place. And as of now the Soviet Union would be destroyed." Gruenther pointed once more to the Soviet Union. "It is certainly a factor that people here must take into consideration before they would press the button to send those rockets ... No nation is going to press that button if it means suicide...
...second example frequently cited is the case of the short-lived sports car club. The club was allegedly outlawed at Brown because there were non-Brown students in it, a factor which limited the University's control over it. "The students would like to have more control over their own organizations," Lewis said, "but lately the University has started to clamp down. Had the students more say in the matter, the sports car club would probably not have been removed...