Word: factors
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What Is He Leaving? A major factor in all attitudes toward death is religious belief-or lack of it-in life hereafter. Some clergymen assert that such a belief is all that is needed to take the sting out of death. Others, like San Francisco's Rabbi Alvin I. Fine are more mod erate. "The Judaeo-Christian tradition," says he, "offers a way of looking at death. Religious belief and understanding are definitely helpful in facing death." Psychiatrists, who tend to be agnostics, complain that the clerical attitude generally puts too much emphasis on where a person is going...
...cautioned that implied in the distribution scheme was an "atrophy factor." Gen Ed, he said, has always "been a requirement in a dual sense": students must take it, but the Faculty is also obligated to give Gen Ed courses. "Without a requirement for Gen Ed courses per se, some much-needed offerings might wither away." If professors could satisfy their Gen Ed "requirement" by teaching introductory courses, very few would venture outside their department, Monro suggested...
...amazed to read that the Combined Charities had dropped the American Friends Service Committee from its list of recommended charities. For years the Combined Charities have supported the AFSC. The latter has scarcely changed over the years. What could have been the new factor that made the AFSC suddenly "controversial" because of its "political overtones?" I could scarely take seriously the charge of Benjamin F. Stapleton that the AFSC was embarked on a program of "propagandizing for world peace." It has been encouraging discussion of problems affecting peace for forty-five years. This is nothing new--though...
...against Birch, Barry and Bob," Young would say. "Goldwaterism, Taft Juniorism and extremism are all the same commodity." There was one other major factor: organized labor's thirst for revenge against the son of the man who co-sponsored the Taft-Hartley...
...good sense to marry the bosses' daughters. There are also valuable imponderables. "We have a consistent record of good growth," says Mennen Co. President George Mennen, "and family pride has something to do with it. After all, the products carry our name." Another factor that helps to produce good results is the feeling of tradition, purpose and loyalty that pervades family-owned firms. These are attributes that big manager-run companies, for all their size and strength, find a lot harder to produce...