Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...educators complain they have too much responsibility over students' lives because grades are a factor in draft deferments [March 25]. Draft boards must decide which men to take. Army classification people must decide which men to train for combat, which for jobs behind the lines. The Pentagon must decide which units to send to Viet Nam, which to noncombat areas. Leaders in Viet Nam must decide which units to send into combat. The platoon leader must decide which squad to send on patrol. I don't think it too much to ask the educator...
When the Ford Foundation awarded an $85 million grant to U.S. orchestras five months ago, it was paying tribute to the nation's richest and most underrated cultural asset. The symphony orchestra has long been a mighty factor in the creative life of U.S. communities, but most Americans, cowed by a self-consciousness about European culture, have never acknowledged...
Prairie Populists. The biggest factor in Humphrey's re-emergence is his unusually close personal rapport with L.B.J. Humphrey, 54, and Johnson, 57, are a pair of old prairie Populists with a common rural background, the instincts of teachers and a shared, lifelong devotion to the New Deal. When they arrived in the Senate on the same day in 1949, Humphrey was generally regarded as a brash young radical, a "black knight," as he puts it, intent on tilting against the senatorial establishment ruled by Democrat Richard Russell and Republican Robert Taft...
...policy changes were proposed by the Radcliffe administration and the library staff. A student poll, which was conducted earlier this year by the Radcliffe Government Association, was a factor in the decisions, Miss Porritt said...
...ruled that bigness is unlawful, or that a large company may not merge with a smaller one in a different market field," the judges wrote. "Yet the size of Procter and its legitimate successful operations pervades the entire opinion of the commission and seems to be the motivating factor which influenced the commission to rule the acquisition illegal...