Word: factors
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...facilities in both public and private schools. Albert called Johnson's cautious plan "a fringe attack on the education problem," but predicted it would still be tough to pass. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield agreed: "It will be a problem-although the religious debate is less of a factor every year...
...female followers to bombard politicians with telegrams, letters and personal visits. The climax came in Sāo Paulo last March, when Doña Amélia's women staged an anti-Goulart "March with God for Freedom." It drew 800,000 marchers and was a factor in convincing Brazil's military to oust Goulart. A day after he fell, Doña Amélia did even better, drawing a record 1,000,000 people for a "March of Thanksgiving...
...distinctive as the Collinses in San Pedro in a yellow car. To "refine the jurors' thinking," Sinetar then explained how mathematicians calculate the probability that a whole set of possibilities will occur at once. Take three abstract possibilities (A, B, C), and assign to each a hypothetical probability factor. A, for example, may have a probability of 1 out of 3; B, 1 out of 10; C, 1 out of 100. The odds against A, B and C occurring together are the product of their total probabilities...
...department stores has risen during the past decade from $5.02 to $6.12, and the crucial consumer-the one who does most of the buying-now earns between $8,000 and $15,000 a year. Tastes have expanded along with incomes, to the extent that fashion has become a deciding factor even in the children's departments; colors and styles that catch on with adult shoppers quickly move into the children's market as well. Among Macy's current bestsellers are Spanish-styled cribs made of walnut and boys' slacks cut along Italian lines. The impact...
...born in 1917, the same year as John Kennedy (another factor the family considered--many of the architects were not of the same generation as the President) in Canton, China. He decided to become an architect when he saw his first skyscraper at the age of 16, came to the United States two years later, graduated from M.I.T., and got his master's at Harvard, where he served on the Faculty from 1945 to 1948. He was also a member of the Visiting Committee of the School of Design for five years...