Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week 85% of the Dark Forest lay in smoking ruins, the result of a monumental five-week fire that, as An Xuyen Province Pacification Chief William Barrett said, was the result of "a set of circumstances that could never be duplicated in a million years." One factor was the weather: the dry season had started two months early last fall, and dried U Minh's peat turf to tinder. Then, on March 8th, a group of fishermen, who had been forbidden by the Viet Cong to fish in the forest ponds, turned arsonists in pique and started...
...begin with, the prosecution failed to supply evidence that "any of the individual probability factors listed were even roughly accurate." Moreover, the factors were not shown to be fully independent of one another as they must be to satisfy the mathematical law; the factor of a Negro with a beard, for instance, overlaps the possibility that the bearded Negro may be part of an interracial couple. The 12 million to 1 figure, therefore, was just "wild conjecture." In addition, there was not complete agreement among the witnesses about the characteristics in question. "No mathematical equation," added the court, "can prove...
...Hara, an acknowledged social historian, makes no plea for the special virtues of the past. For other novelists, the present may be a disaster, but there is no indication that things ever were any better. When they do turn to the antecedents-John Barth in The Sot-Weed Factor or William Styron in The Confessions of Nat Turner-it is only to show that America has been headed for catastrophe right from the start...
...other factor that will keep the number of concentrators down is limited equipment and space. Over 200 applications for 24 places in courses like Vis Stud 140 have kept this course and others right up there with Robert Lowell's versification seminar as the toughest to get into in the University...
Administrators have also changed the process of determining eligibility for work-study jobs, Maguire said. They will no longer use the amount of money a student's parents contribute to his college cost as the sole factor...