Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Factor. Congress' sudden sympathy for reform reflects that growing public desire for a change. What shape a proposed amendment will finally take is not yet clear, however. Besides the House Judiciary Committee's plan for a direct election, there are also schemes to retain electoral votes in some form. One such plan would divide each state's electoral votes among the candidates according to the popular-vote breakdown. Another would elect members of the Electoral College by local districts...
...groups: the Mao-Lin section (twelve members), which retains control; the People's Liberation Army segment (six members), which mistrusts Lin because he espoused the extremism and instability of the Cultural Revolution; and the so-called Pragmatists, which now encompasses only Chou and Li Hsien-nien. The key factor in the changes is the rise to power of military leaders who do not necessarily favor Lin and his slavish support of Mao's all-out radicalization. With Chou's moderate faction hit hard, the new army types are expected to take over Chou...
...point to some conditional evidence of success. The annual commitment rate to state mental hospitals from San Francisco, for example, has dropped from 2,887 to 119 in the past four years-a decline in which the city's expanding complex of emergency-treatment centers was a major factor. Grady Memorial Hospital, which opened a crisis center in 1968, now treats 5,000 psychiatric emergencies a year. The hospital's 36-bed mental ward, which previously was inadequate to the demand, is seldom full today...
Fortunately, the Crimson now appears to be picking up momentum after a slow start. A number of the injured players are back, and the sophomores have gained valuable experience. Another positive factor is the third midfield line of Charlie Scott, Bucky Hayes, and Ted Rumsey. These three saw limited action in early-season games, but Munro used them frequently in the Princeton game, and the strategy worked as the first two lines did not tire so much in the second half...
...decisive factor in the game could be right-hander Bob Dorwart. The senior hurler has pitched the entire game in both of his last two outings. He has lowered his earned run average 37 points and now leads the team with 29 strikeouts...