Word: factors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Journal of the National Cancer Institute last week that MX, a compound produced when chlorine reacts with organic material in water, causes cancer in laboratory rats when swallowed in large quantities. "Although these findings cannot be extrapolated to humans," they concluded, "MX should be studied as a candidate risk factor...
Pippen is right. Jordan is the greatest athlete in the history of American sports, Muhammad Ali's nickname to the contrary. If the criterion is dominance in a sport, then Jordan's nine scoring titles is testament enough. If team success is the crucial factor, then Jordan's five championships in seven years--thanks to his 39 points in Game 6 on Friday night--trumps everyone who wasn't a Celtic or a Yankee. Jordan's only competition, really, is Ruth. Bobby Mattick, the 86-year-old scout for the Toronto Blue Jays, says, "Bill Essick, who signed Joe DiMaggio...
...example, in the case of Air Force General Joseph W. Ralston, who may have stretched the military's "Don't-ask, don't-tell" policy practically to its limits by not mentioning an adulterous affair until he was confronted about it 13 years later, one mitigating factor was that the other party, a woman who worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, was not under his command or even in the service, and thus presented no threat to good order and discipline...
...JOHNSON, a 50-year-old black urban planner. Johnson must now defeat G.O.P. primary winner CHARLOTTE REEVES. (A third and distant candidate is independent Ivory Phillips, a black woman.) The other wonder of this election is that though Jackson has a black majority, race has not been a dominant factor. Reeves, a white woman, handily defeated black civil rights activist James Meredith in the G.O.P. primary. Jackson voters seemed less concerned about color than about rising crime and other problems...
Despite Harvard's second-place finish, sophomore setter Kate Nash was named the Ivy Tournament MVP. Her 201 assists and 48 digs during the weekend alone made her presence a powerful factor in Harvard's underdog victories. Junior Elissa Hart, who led the Crimson in kills for the season (511) and for the Ivies (74), was named to the All-Tournament team...