Word: factors
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Barry had every cause for confidence. Every tried and tested political factor weighs heavily against Scranton's being able to pick up enough delegates to win in San Francisco. Indeed, his move required a degree of bravado: rarely before has a major U.S. presidential candidate stood up a bare four weeks before a nominating convention and insisted that in that short time he could prove to the U.S. that he should be in the White House...
With so much emphasis on what to eat and how much, some authorities despair of getting the public to recognize that heart disease has no single, simple cause. Hereditary susceptibility is a factor, and so is high blood pressure. Says Dr. Paul Dudley White, lean, beanpole dean of cardiologists: "We're trying to establish the degree of responsibility for a number of different factors. For instance, muscular metabolism, and the effects of vigorous exercise." Dr. William B. Kannel, assistant director of a ten-year-old study of more than 5,000 men and women in Framingham, Mass., says: "Cigarette...
...Hampshire, Goldwater was asked if he favored continuing or altering the social security system. Replied he: "I would like to suggest one change, that social security be voluntary." Almost everyone agrees that a voluntary social security system would be actuarially unsound, and Goldwater's remark was certainly a factor in his New Hampshire loss. But in California a fortnight ago, he said flatly that he does not advocate making the system voluntary, and insisted that "anyone who says I am against social security lies...
...severe the increase is statistically. But Harris argues that since 1948, however they are computed, hospital daily costs have gone up 2½ times as much as income after direct taxes, which is the best measure of the patient's ability to pay. By far the biggest factor in hospitals' rising costs has been salaries and wages -and, most surprisingly, it is the professional and nursing staffs that have taken most of the increase, and not the notoriously underpaid housekeeping and kitchen employees...
...three and four, and his dam, Tap Day, was a daughter of Calumet Farm's great Bull Lea. But in the Kentucky Derby, Quadrangle finished fifth behind Northern Dancer; in the Preakness, the best he could do was fourth. Still, Burch decided to gamble, and the deciding factor might well have been Quadrangle's record at the Big A; four firsts, one second in five starts...