Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Another factor has been the increase in the minimum wage, which went from $2.65 to $2.90 on Jan. 1. Higher fuel prices and gasoline shortages may also hurt the chains because people will be less inclined to drive out for a meal. Indeed there has been a quick rise in supermarket sales of fast-food fixin's to prepare at home...
...high official, complain about his immediate subordinate ... And, most importantly of all, you should write enormous numbers of complaints and send them to the officials least equipped to deal with them." One objective of these tactics was to cause unsightly bulges in the official statistics, "the most powerful factor of all in Soviet life...
Even if Hackett is less than 100 per cent physically, he figures to be a major factor in at least two individual events, the 500-and 1650-yd. freestyles. He is not, however, the Crimson's only hope...
...Chai's a big factor on this team, and we'll be hurt if he doesn't play," Walker said...
People who like their jobs (and up to 82% claim to) tend to be happier in general. An attitude of optimism (held by some 70%) often coincides with happiness, but quite a few of the 6% who are convinced pessimists are also happy. Good health is a big factor in happiness to some, yet poor health does not turn out to be incompatible with happiness. Not even "satisfaction" is indispensable to happiness. Says University of Michigan Psychologist Stephen Withey in Subjective Elements of Well-Being, a collection of papers presented in 1972: "Young people tend to report more happiness than...