Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homicides were committed with guns v. 25% in New York City, where the state's tough 55-year-old Sullivan Law requires police permits for the mere possession of handguns. Says J. Edgar Hoover: "Those who claim that the availability of firearms is not a factor in murders in this country are not facing reality...
Defense to Welfare. Beyond that, Collbohm-trained Rand alumni catalyzed Robert McNamara's management revolution in the Pentagon. A Rand specialty is a sophisticated application of "systems analysis," approaching highly complex projects by interrelating each constituent factor. In Pentagon terms, for example, it means considering an Air Force demand for planes in terms of everything from the cost to the taxpayer to the labor skills involved to the amount of aluminum available. It has proved so successful that the "Rand way of thinking" has become a major operating influence throughout the Government...
...spent the past 51 years in Washington-first as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, and currently as Assistant Director of the Bureau of the Budget. His appointment heightens speculation that Rand may focus increasingly on social problems. Though Rowen insists that Rand will continue to be a key factor in U.S. defense planning, he said last week: "There is a great need to get much better analysis done in public-policy issues. Rand...
...Revelation. Disgusted with the world, the author invents another one. He sets it on campus, a familiar locale to Barth, a 36-year-old State University of New York at Buffalo professor who is a favorite of intellectuals because of his earlier books, notably The Sot-Weed Factor. His world is New Tammany College; it is under the official aegis of the Founder (God), author of the Old Syllabus, and of his son, the Grand Tutor, whose system for passing the finals (death) is no longer valid, and who is known as the Shepherd Emeritus...
...Baird points to the School's admissions system as the crucial factor in a debate as to how liberal social rules could be. "Harvard has a very strict selection system, and we know what kind of people we have here and what to expect from them," Baird says. The girls here during the summer are apt to be less responsible with their freedom than Radcliffe girls, he explains...