Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third argument listed in the letter is what Goldfarb calls the "male emotional stability factor." Goldfarb does not think that this argument can be used to keep boys out of Radcliffe Library because "boys cause less disturbance in a female environment than vice versa." Several HUC members noted that it is "impossible to study" in co-ed libraries they have visited...
...another historian, I commend you for honoring the craft with your cover story on Arthur Schlesinger [Dec. 17]. I, too, would plump for activism because of its merit to the interpreter of history. However, there is a factor in such associations that Schlesinger fails to emphasize. That is the gracious receptivity of men such as his President and my Governor to interloping historians. Access is the key to effective political participation and observation, and Kennedy and Scranton have literally opened their offices to public scrutiny...
Growth v. Stability. The economic policies of 1966 will be determined most of all by one factor: the war in Viet Nam. Barring an unexpected truce, defense spending will soar so high ?by at least an additional $7 billion?that it will impose a severe demand upon the nation's productive capacity and give body to the specter of inflation. Keynes feared inflation, and warned that "there is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of a society than to debauch the currency." Once chided for undertipping a bootblack in Algiers, he replied: "I will...
...overly hard labor, and had been given books to read, Red Cross packages and mail from home. Both insisted that they had not been subjected to any form of brainwashing; but the Viet Cong representative did let slip that "the good discipline of the prisoners" had been a major factor in granting their release...
Both Harvard and C.C.N.Y. have teams comparable to last year's, but C.C.N.Y. has the home advantage this year. This could prove decisive. Fencing is almost as much a game of psyche as of skill, and an unfamiliar strip might rattle the Harvard varsity. Another factor may be the alleged tendency of New York judges to favor the local boys...