Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time in five months, he still drew approval from only 41% of the nation. And even though Johnson's prospects are likely to improve once the Republican Party fields a candidate who must then stake out positions on controversial, vote-losing issues, a new and intriguing factor entered the 1968 equation last week...
...Fatigue Factor. With the computer doing the juggling, all the different-length classes a school could not handle in the past can now be fitted neatly into place. Taking maximum advantage of available time, 54 high schools as far apart as Las Vegas, Miami and Montclair, N.J., all report similar trends in their curriculums. Foreign language instruction is being doled out in shorter instruction periods to allow for the fatigue factor of intense learning. Courses in the humanities and social sciences are being divided into large lecture groups early in the week, then broken up into small units for study...
That number has become by far the most important factor in Harvard's admissions process...
...academic" rating, he is likely to make a lot more wrong guesses than right ones. Dean K. Whitla of the Office of Tests shows in an essay soon to be published that for the Class of 1968, there is just about no correlation between admission to Harvard and such factors as SAT scores, rank-in-class, and predicted rank list. The correlation between admissions and the personal factor is better than 90 percent...
Andrews works closely not only with the contractor, but with educators (the 36-year-old Dean of Scarborough worked very closely with Andrews), sociologists, economists, and other specialists. System programming, according to Andrews, is the critical factor in reaching his goals of movement and communication. A typical application is to the circulation plan of people. With system programming, he says, the designer reaches, a rational decision on the number of elevators or the width of corridors for a building...