Word: factors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poll. The pivotal factor in the decline, says Philip M. Hauser, director of the University of Chicago's Population Research Center, has been the decision of couples to forgo a third and fourth child, substituting, perhaps, a second car and color TV. Eighty percent of the birthrate drop from 1915 to 1933-the historic low year-was a result of a falling off in third and fourth births, he notes, while 80% of the increase thereafter was caused by a jump in third and fourth children...
...Among them was Martin Luther King, who left shortly afterward for a barnstorming tour of Alabama, where he urged Negroes to vote as a bloc in this week's Democratic primary-in which, thanks to the 1964 and 1965 civil rights bills, their ballots had become a major factor...
...contains 3½ times as much salt as human milk, Dr. Fisher noted, along with generous amounts of butterfat and milk sugar. And Dr. Fisher accuses sugars as well as fats of aggravating acne. More to the point, male hormones (androgens) have long been recognized as a major triggering factor in acne, and Dr. Fisher suggested that female hormones of the progesterone type (unlike the estrogens) work the same way. Which makes it particularly significant that "about 80% of the cows that are giving milk are pregnant and are throwing off hormones continuously...
...common stock; it plans to exchange 1,118,000 "participating preference" shares for Diebold's 2,601,000 common shares. Though the preference shares are convertible into Litton common on a one-for-one basis, Diebold investors will be induced to hold on to them because the conversion factor will rise yearly, reaching just over two common shares for each preference share...
Layzer, however, argues that any light from stars less than a billion years old would make an "insignificant" contribution to the brightness or darkness of the sky. The microwave energy from the early universe, he said, is a far more important factor, and only because this is so dispersed and weak is the sky dark...