Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President assured congressional leaders last summer that he would adjust his policy "should circumstances affecting the balance [on the Korean peninsula] change significantly." One factor that could affect Carter's decision is whether North and South Korea resume the negotiations that stalled in August 1973. There were indications last week that the two sides might again start talking. Another factor is that keeping the G.I.s in South Korea might be popular. A poll last year by Potomac Associates, a Washington think tank, found that by 52% to 35%, Americans favored maintaining ground forces in South Korea. There also...
...major unknown factor is what Pope John Paul will advise the bishops in this week's closed-door meetings. The left fears that this Pope from Poland will favor the "Polish solution," which uses subtle maneuvering more than confrontation with repressive regimes. Remarks one liberal at the Vatican: "The difference is that in Eastern Europe the regimes are atheistic, while in Latin America they are supposedly Catholic. That gives the Holy See a graver responsibility." The mere presence of the new Pontiff at a conference that could well cause him problems is a sure sign that John Paul...
...galloping inflation; indeed last week the Labor Department set the rise in consumer prices for all of 1978 at a full 9%, making it the second most inflationary year in the past three decades.* Why the enormous difference between the fat Sixties and the souring Seventies? Though no single factor can be assigned all the blame, one trend is now being recognized as supremely important: the growth of productivity has slowed sharply in this decade, and since 1976 it has almost stopped...
Student input, then, seems to be a crucial factor in determining the type of food served in the dining halls. The quality of food is a different matter. Size of kitchen and the human element involved are two factors beyond the control of students who lobby to improve House food...
...smaller than those arising from careful guesstimating. Perhaps unnecessarily, Eckstein adds: "There's plenty of room for humility." The humbling failure of scientists to predict surely either the course of nature (as in the weather) or cultural dynamics (as in economic and social change) may be one factor that licenses the numberless irrational prophets who proliferate in today's age of ostensible reason...