Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just before the application system was altered, Lowell House rose from a long period of supposed decline to become one of the most consistently over-applied Houses. The new-found popularity was more the result of a lot of little things than any one factor, but all added up to one conclusion. For some not quite definable reason, Lowell is an inordinately pleasant place to spend three years...
Karen is now eight. She is typical of what the record industry calls "the nubes" (for nubiles), "the teeny weenies" or "the pre-bra set"-the gradeschool girls who are becoming a major factor in the pop-music market...
...Violence on the scale of the Watts and Harlem riots has so far been rare-partly because the heavy concentration of Negroes in Northern cities has given them powerful new political muscle. "If he hadn't been urbanized, the Negro wouldn't have become a political factor and thus able to change his status," says Weaver. "The 'Negro Revolt' is an urban phenomenon...
...epidemiologists followed the medical history of their volunteers since the winter of 1959-60. The first result of their work was the world's most exhaustive survey of the relationship between men's smoking and disease (TIME, Dec. 13, 1963), a study that was a major factor in persuading the U.S. Public Health Service to condemn smoking. By now, the Cancer Society researchers have followed both the men and the women for four years, and have tracked down the cause in 97% of the 43,000 deaths among the subjects. The delay in reporting the data on women...
...York and Miami, depending on the passenger's marital status ("family rates"), occupation (members of the clergy and military men fly cheaper), whether he is going first class or by air coach, by jet or by piston, at night or by day. Age has become a particularly significant factor in the cost of air travel: in the last month eight major carriers, including American, which pioneered the plan, have begun offering half-fare service on a standby basis to young people between twelve and 21 who had previously paid $3 for an age certification card...