Word: factors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dotted with fountains. At its eastern end is a new $4,000,000 department store, and midway on its length a 7½-story office building is under construction. Behind the stores the city had already built large parking spaces, considered by mall men to be a key factor in the success of pedestrians-only areas. In effect, downtown has been converted to an oversized shopping center. Pomona is also considering amplifying its parking facilities by building a monorail between the mall and the fair grounds, two miles away, which are used only 17 days of the year...
...basis of unusual circumstances of which personal financial hardship was the underlying factor, the ECAC committee on eligibility, under provision of Article VIII of the ECAC rules of eligibility, hereby restores the eligibility of Eugene Kinasewich of Harvard University for intercollegiate athletic competition...
...more basic factor, some Detroiters insist, is that the consumer now has an uncommonly big backlog of spare cash; in 1960, savings accounts in the U.S., which had long been growing at a steady $10 billion-a-year clip, suddenly increased by $20 billion. This created a pent-up buying potential, which needed only to be triggered...
...Commerce slide rule, the squeeze does not seem to come from the most commonly blamed factor: rising wages. Proportionately, U.S. labor costs today are exactly what they were in 1948-64% of the value of total corporate output. The trouble comes largely from two other factors, according to the Commerce Department's statistics. One is that indirect business taxes, particularly property taxes, have increased from 8.9% of the value of corporate production in 1948 to 10.5% now. More important, the amount of their gross income that U.S. corporations allocate to depreciation costs on plant and equipment has risen from...
...receipts from the land are expected to total approximately $5.5 million, but the MTA says that price may not be the only determining factor in choosing among bidders. The MTA plans also to consider proposals for the land's development according to the tax revenue the city of Cambridge would receive from construction...