Word: factors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past year, Venezuela's gross national product, which rose 5.8% in 1963, increased by more than 7%. Oil production, the economy's overwhelming factor, climbed almost 5%, farm production 7%, manufacturing 11%, mining 25%, and construction a spectacular 75%. As the focus of the boom, Caracas is beginning to look like a Monopoly board near the end of a hot game. On Avenida Francisco Miranda, the Caracas branches of Balmain and Cartier, once exclusive hangouts for Venezuela's big rich, now thrive on a growing middle-class trade...
...Wolverines have a rugged team, and their number one national ranking no fluke. Michigan's leading players is -5 Cazzie Russell, an All-American whose great shooting has been a major factor Michigan's 23-3 record this season. But the Wolverines' biggest assets are muscle and height...
Harvard's depth can be explained by one factor: Coach H. Corey Wynn '40. Wynn, who also serves as freshman tennis coach, persuaded all his top tennis players to take up squash in the winter. This added considerably to the team's strength, especially as the season progressed...
Humidity Down. Part of the sales and production stretch-out is due to the fact that U.S. air-conditioning companies have stepped up exports to $150 million yearly, sell cooling equipment to such reverse-season continents as Australia and Latin America. But the most important factor is the broadening of air conditioning in the U.S. Says Bynum: "Air conditioning is now a year-round business of climate control. It is no longer just seasonal cooling...
...first in several years, will be an exercise in intelligence rather than in brightness. Titled "The Political Element in Economic History," it was originally conceived as a dialogue between the disciplines of politics and economics. Gerschenkron now sees it, however, as an attempt to pick out the political factor in economics, and to define its importance. "The key thing is to establish the limits of propositions and approaches--the boundaries beyond which the hypotheses no longer hold water." By teaching an upper-level General Education course, rather than one on strict economic history, Gerschenkron can proceed by "free association...