Word: factor
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Height proved the crucial factor of the contest. Yale's twin towers, 6-ft. 1-in center Margy Hutchinson and Debbie Danner waded through Harvard's considerably shorter defense with ease, banking in 20 points a piece...
Gromyko's warning about interference by Peking and Washington gave credence to the theory that one factor in the Kremlin's Afghan adventurism may well have been its longstanding paranoia about China and its fears of a new U.S.-China axis. According to one knowledgeable Asian diplomat, Chinese arms aid for the Muslim rebels significantly increased after Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping's visit to Washington in January 1979. And help from other sources seems to be on the way. Last week Egyptian Defense Minister Lieut. General Kamal Hassan Ali admitted that his country was arming and training...
...does not return to its normal position and myopia develops. Second, the eye is least able to reduce strain near the point where the optic nerve enters the eye--Greene draws an analogy with the rivet holes in airplane wings, the weakest point of an airplane's body. This factor may explain why myopia is concentrated about the optic nerve...
...another contributory cause. Said local TV Reporter Ernie Mills, who was in the first group of journalists swapped for guards: "Some of those in mates were so high that they could al most have flown out of that prison." Racial tensions, however, appear not to have been an important factor. About 60% of the inmates were Hispanics, 30% were white, and 10% were black. But most of the victims were also Hispanics...
Freshman Jack Ewin, lopped four seconds from the 200 breast stroke mark, clocking 2:11.5, a time which promises to make him a factor in this event at the Easterns. The streak of records was interrupted when Ned Cahoon touched first in the 100-yd. freestyle (49.1), a second off the old standard...