Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cowdry puts it this way: "More important than any other single factor is the old person's need for a community of interests. Nature seems to have ordained that those who abdicate from life socially will soon abdicate from life physically...
...passenger, 335-m.p.h. Viscounts were a hit from the start. With big picture windows, less noise and vibration than piston-engined planes, the Viscounts operated up to 85% of full load for the first few months, have averaged 70% in their first full year v. an average 64% load factor for the rest of the industry. Replacing Lockheed Constellations with Viscounts on the Chicago-Washington run, Capital tripled its business, carried 33,802 passengers from February through May 1956 v. 11,322 passengers during the same period of 1955. Traffic on the New York-Pittsburgh run was up 74% ; Chicago...
...they must shake the party awake and set it to hollering. Adlai Stevenson and his supporters think they can keep it still and quiet until the decisive ballot. The care and feeding of the Baby, between now and the first roll call, may well be the decisive factor in Chicago...
...ambassador of good will. Once, when he left a meeting at the White House early, the President of the U.S. turned to his associates and said: "Gentlemen, the man who just left the room would most certainly be a member of my Cabinet except for one, just one, disqualifying factor. He happens to be my brother...
...most complex factor of integration at the teaching level revolves around the qualifications of the Negro teachers. If Negro teachers are really inferior, no one can defend keeping them in an integrated school. But by breaking the vicious circle (bad schools giving bad educations to pupils who then in turn become bad teachers) at the student level, the first generation of teachers must invariably suffer...