Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young man who's been out in that for six or seven years is not going to stay in that kind of business." While farm life seems all "drudgery and hardship," industry is offering beginning salaries to college graduates too tempting to refuse. But the most important factor is that few boys and girls realize that agriculture has become a field that needs highly trained technicians...
...personally thought out his decision to call for an end to H-bomb tests (TIME, April 30), and nothing that his friends or advisers could say would dissuade him. On another occasion, he disagreed with some Democrats on a campaign tactic. The tactic, his friends insisted, would be a factor in winning the nomination. "But," replied Stevenson, ending the discussion, "I don't have to win." In this, or in any other discussion of a subject on which he has made up his mind, Stevenson can rise to battle with what a friend has called a "Dean Acheson kind...
While the 1956 attitude is no doubt a factor, the paucity of businessmen active in political affairs runs much deeper than one season's mood. U.S. businessmen, whether Democrats or Republicans, have a deep-seated aversion to political activity. Even in the last presidential campaign an upsurge in political interest on the part of businessmen generally took the form of discreet, behind-the-scenes aid. Few businessmen shrink from political action in cases that directly affect their industry, e.g., for higher tariffs on imported textiles (promised by implication last week in the Democratic platform). But most executives shrink from...
...reason for the scarcity was the fall-off in new car sales (down 12% from a year ago), which meant fewer trade-ins. But another factor was the growing demand, especially in the suburbs, for two (or more) cars in every driveway. Said a New York dealer: "Seems like everybody in the family wants a car these days...
...markets and dependable sources of raw materials in South and Central America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. But, argued Ishibashi, "the result has not been satisfactory enough to induce the Japanese to give up Communist China." Said he: "Segregation of the China market has been the major factor contributing to the changes in Japan's trade pattern from prewar...