Word: factors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This autonomy allows the boards to accomodate their standards to the particular features of each case, Harold Heinstein, chairman of the Brookline board, calls this adjustment "the human factor." "We consider every aspect of the registrant," Heinstein says, "his family's financial condition, his standing with friends and employers right down to the part of his hair...
...Army Chief of Staff General Suharto are carrying their struggle to reorganize the nation beyond the mere killing of Reds. Last week the entire Indonesian price-wage structure was shaken up by what could only be army orders. Fuel, postal and railway rates were upped by roughly a factor of 100 to bring the rupiah (currently 22,500 to $1 on the black market) into realistic line. Agents hustled off to other Southeast Asian nations in search of rice for the food-short nation. Wages must still be brought up to meaningful levels, but that much-needed step could well...
Another complicating factor was the difference between trade and generic names of the prescribed drugs. The generic name is simply the chemical name and a prescription specifying the compound this way is usually less expensive. Doctors may write the prescription another way, depending on their personal preference. This results in different prices for identical drugs...
Until he was a high-school senior, McGovern never dreamed of attending Harvard. But by going to the University and then accepting the endorsement of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) he inherited much of the historical anti-University sentiment in the City, and it was an important factor in the way he ran his campaign...
...amount of zinc in the human body is so small that textbooks offhandedly record its presence as "a trace." That trace, though, seems important indeed. Small as it is, the body's normal zinc supply is a vital factor in growth. If the supply is increased with daily capsules of an inexpensive zinc compound, said a report sent by Air Force Major Walter J. Pories to the International Congress of Military Medicine in Bangkok, tissue grows so quickly that wounds tend to heal far faster than usual...