Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anderson and George Patterson, returning to track after a year out of school and a term on probation, should be a formidable entry. Also a factor in the sprints is football star Bob Leo, whom McCurdy thinks might also help out in the broad jump, triple jump, and sprint relay...
...City Hall site a new $20 million building that, at 28 stories, will be Omaha's highest. A savings and loan association followed with a decision to put up a 15-story building. Both companies cited "a changed climate in the mayor's office" as a major factor in their decisions to put up the largest downtown offices built in the city since the 1920s. Sorensen also attacked discrimination in Omaha (10% of the population is Negro) more determinedly than any previous mayor, personally canvassed white neighborhoods to find housing for a Negro he had appointed to head...
...Apathy. Nowhere is the X-factor of Negro participation more potentially decisive than in Virginia, where three Democratic incumbents who personify the Old Dominion's conservative tradition are being challenged in the July 12th primary. U.S. Representative Howard Worth ("Judge") Smith, 83, longtime chairman of the House Rules Committee, is seeking his 19th House term, faces a Democratic opponent for the first time in more than a decade. State Assemblyman George C. Rawlings, 44, a Fredericksburg attorney and avowed liberal, plans to make Smith's obstructionism on civil rights and other contemporary issues the focus of his campaign...
...give Rawlings more than an outside chance of overcoming Judge Smith's longtime reservoir of respect and affection. Admitting that what he calls "the dinosaur vote" is still strong in Smith's bailiwick, Rawlings hopes that the district's increased Negro vote may prove the decisive factor-as it could in the other two races. Statewide, 61,096 more Virginia Negroes are enfranchised than in 1964, increasing total Negro voting strength to 205,000, or 19.7% of the Old Dominion's 1964 election turnout. The increase is particularly significant in Virginia, since for years less than...
...most important factor in helping people learn, Rogers continued, is the personal relationship between teacher and learner. He cited three attitudes as basic to good student-teacher relationships: "realness," "prizing or positive regard," and "empathic understanding...