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Word: factoring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SIDE FROM RESEARCH, another factor helps to explain Faculty reluctance to lead tutorials--the tutorial relationship itself whittles away at professors' exalted positions. Committee G recognized this pitfall back in the 1920s. The committee report said the effect of tutorials "will be to diminish the prestige of the teacher so far as this is an effect of distance and office. The tutorial calls for fraternity rather than paternalism...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Tutorials: Aging Gracelessly | 3/10/1979 | See Source »

When they disparage the productivity of the American worker [Feb. 5], do the economists give consideration to the following weighted factor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 5, 1979 | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...them return home. The AWOL rate is so high that the army command has announced a two-year reorganization plan that will better integrate the demoralized southern troops into a more aggressive fighting force. Mao Tse-tung may have been right when he said, "Weapons are an important factor in war but not the decisive factor; it is people not things that are decisive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Military Balance | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...decision the supervisor made is a routine decision taken "in cases when we know someone is on the mountain. They're not supposed to be there alone. The weather was severe--a 70 to 82 degree below zero wind-chill factor on top of the mountain. We had a moral and legal obligation to get Mr. Yates," explained Tibbs...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Disobedience a la Thoreau: The Case of Gus Yates | 3/2/1979 | See Source »

Hancock delivers a petrifyingly smooth and solid disc with the pace of a pendulum and an impressive array of moods. "Trust Me," a soft and easily flowing track incorporated his genius on the keyboards and his synthesized voice. To illuminate the backup vocals, a factor many other artists ignore. Hancock relies upon the Four Waters. The Four Waters isn't the name of a quartet, but rather a way to describe the vocal ebb and flow of brothers Oren and Luther Waters and their wives Julia and Maxine. The stunning vitality of their voices sounds electrifying behind that of Hancock...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Running Strong | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

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