Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third factor which has confused the bookies is the relative strength of the two lines. Most observers seem to rate the Green line, which averages 196.4, slightly stronger than the Crimson forward wall, which averages...
...radioactive strontium contamination. Even Senator Kefauver is quoted by the New York Times (Sunday, Oct. 21, p. 55) as conceding that the tests could be continued for thirty years at the present rate without damage. However, Ralph Lapp, the eminent nuclear physicist, has recently found an error of a factor of forty in the rate of accumulation of this deadly poison. In an article in the October Bulletin of the Atom Scientists Lapp points out that the government report from which the conclusions of the administration were drawn is in error in two respects...
Party organization was the other basic factor which led to Braucher's support of Eisenhower. "I find it easier to separate Eisenhower from Jenner and his wing of the party, than to divorce Stevenson from Eastland and his supporters...
...never quite get used to it either," she answered sympathetically, handing us the 124th Annual Report which informs its readers: "Corporate prosperity with its attendant benefits was again the principal factor in making 1955 another good year for Mount Auburn...
Threats and Counterthreats. Since the latest raids so evidently failed to improve the security of Israel's border, other explanations needed to be found for the pattern of mounting Israeli attacks. One factor seems to be that Israelis believe that the state of Jordan is disintegrating politically, and that they must look to their flanks before the Egyptians or the Iraqis arrive there to fill the expected vacuum. Also, those Israeli who think a showdown with the Jordanians inevitable must be tempted to provoke the fight at a time when Jordan, its own forces considerably inferior to Israel, cannot...