Word: factors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meeting, Committee Chair Peter Ellison explained that one factor is that GSAS has "little" endowment for financial...
...Another factor that promoted the growth of biotechnology in the U.S. was the scientific research support provided by the government, Push says...
...quality of his art, of course. But you can't help reflecting, as you look at his infinitely laborious portraits in which one vastly enlarged face after another is elaborated into a moonscape of pores, wrinkles, blackheads, stubble and multiple highlights, that sheer determination is the common factor of both Close's art and his life...
...weapon of mass destruction, which helped hasten the end of the Second World War and became the defining reality of the cold war. Alan Turing harnessed electronics to devise the first digital computers. Five centuries earlier, Gutenberg's printing press had cut the cost of transmitting information by a factor of a thousand. That paved the way for the Reformation by allowing individuals to have their own Bibles, and for the progress of individual liberties, which became inevitable once information and ideas flowed freely. The transistor and the microchip have cut the cost of transmitting information by a factor...
...maybe this would be a good solution, to punish those who are at fault. However, this is not the case. This problem is a multi-generational one. Also, selecting people according to race, sex or any other innate quality is ridiculous. Ability in the field should be the determining factor, never uncontrollable primordial ties...