Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judge William Hastie, the first Negro to sit on the Court of Appeals, suggesting the advantage of "having people represent different segments" of the population, which is "an entirely sound thing to take into account." Freund, however, stated that "I think it would be a mistake to let the factor of race enter in at all; I think Judge Hastie would agree." An additional deterrent to Hastie's appointment pointed out by Braucher, is the fact that he was appointed to his present post by former President Truman, and he added, "there aren't many Republicans on the court...
...level of pay was the strongest factor determining the attractiveness of of a job (to the emigres)." But "the most desirable jobs were those that paid the most and were simultaneously dangerous (politically...
...only overt illness or accident, but the intangible factor of emotional stress suffered by a woman between the eighth and twelfth weeks of pregnancy may be a precipitating factor in causing harelip and cleft-palate defects, two New Jersey researchers report in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Drs. Lyon P. Strean and Lyndon A. Peer studied 228 cases of cleft palate at Newark's Hospital of St. Barnabas, 40% among first-born children. Going back over the mothers' experiences during the critical weeks of pregnancy-when the two halves of the upper jaw normally fuse in the palatal arch...
...year beginning last July i, federal spending is estimated at $69.1 billion, up $4 billion from last January's estimate. Major factor in the rise: costs of the new soil bank and higher-than-expected expenditures to support farm commodity prices. More than offsetting that increase, however, was a $4.3 billion rise in the estimate of receipts, to $69.8 billion. Reason: a big spurt in personal income-and hence in anticipated income taxes-reflecting the continuing and growing prosperity. The net result for the budget is an anticipated surplus of $700 million, almost twice as much as predicted...
...remaining openings given to members of the "productive intelligentsia" (i.e., "deserving activists," "deserving teachers of the people," "deserving inventors," college professors), and to such heterogeneous categories as "recognized victims of fascism," inmates of orphanages, cum laude high-school graduates. Although high-school grades are in theory a determining factor, they actually have far less to do with a student's chances than his family background and his record of "social" (i.e., political) activity. The final high-school oral examination is a simple exercise in juggling the tortuous details of current party ideology...