Word: factoring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Homo sapiens," he added, "shares the earth with several millions of other species, and just as man's activities affect other forms of life so do they influence man's well-being. Together with man's political behavior, man's environment is the crucial factor that determines his future. Thus the study of the whole organis mis not only deeply preoccupying in itself, but it has important practical applications...
...until the present century did it become clear that safe blood transfusions depended on matching at least the A, B and O groups of red cells. The Rh factor came still later. In the early 1900s, U.S. Physiologist Charles Claude Guthrie and French Biologist-Surgeon Alexis Carrel appeared for a while to have broken down the barriers against transplants. They devised most of the basic surgical techniques, notably how to stitch slippery little blood vessels together so that the joints would neither leak nor close down with clots...
...George W. Andrews (D.-Ala.), whose subcommittee on House Appropriations labeled the appropriation "a deplorable item of expenditure", said in a telephone interview yesterday, "The major factor in our decision was economy." But he added that "the anti-war activity of last summer's interns was also a factor...
...Princeton there could be a new, complicating factor -- women. Goheen has expressed interest in getting a girls' college to associate with the University for a long time, and a Faculty report last year recommended coeducation as a solution to Princeton's social problems. Feelers are out. Sarah Lawrence turned down a bid to hook up with Nassau Hall last year, but Goheen is still trying...
This reliance on the instantaneous reaction of interviewers, the wording of autobiographies, and the readability of reports appears subjective enough, but is only the beginning. Perhaps the pivotal factor is how all this already subjective data is assessed by the applicant's advocate--the man who must present a student's case to the admissions board...