Word: factors
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CONFUSA: What makes productivity go up? HONESTUS: The most important factor is new machinery and equipment. Other factors enter in, including higher levels of education and skill among workers, more efficient means of transportation and communication, research that pays off in new products or new techniques...
Gutheim considered accessibility "the most important factor" in urban design, since it shapes employment opportunities, markets, and patterns of social relations among different classes of people in the city. He mentioned two changes in American sociology which are causing "irrevocable changes" in the way the city planner must think: high speed transportation and the large scale of the modern city...
...substantial radioactive fallout in the Cambridge and Boston areas. If such fallout occurs, it would very likely be in such quantities as to be lethal or highly dangerous to unsheltered persons, but much less harmful--or even harmless--to persons who were in sheltered spaces with a protective factor of 100 or more...
Captain Bob Kaufmann as awarded the Harold S. Ulen Trophy for "qualities of leadership, sportsmanship, and team cooperation." Throughout the season coach Bill Brooks constantly emphasized that Kaufmann was a big factor in the team's great success...
...factor in taking steam out of the bill's opposition is that President Kennedy, master of the political "art of the possible," has mixed his freer-trade pigments with some protectionist coloration. He placated the textile industry, which can influence many a member of Congress, by negotiating a web of "voluntary" quotas on foreign textile exports to the U.S.-and the new trade bill, bold in its thrust against tariffs, conspicuously fails to make any dent in quotas or other nontariff trade restrictions...