Word: factor
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...program suggests that the brain-death criteria, particularly in Britain, are not strict enough and intimates that a factor may be the need for healthy organs for transplants. To buttress the show's argument, the producers described the experiences of five American patients who were thought dead but who survived. Only one was ever considered as a possible organ donor. Two were women who had taken drug overdoses, one was a premature infant, another was a man paralyzed by a muscle-relaxing agent. The most sensational case was that of a man who lost consciousness after suffering a heart...
...Mozart years before. Beethoven reported this unsubstantiated charge in an entry of his conversation book of 1824. More pertinently, Salieri confesses to the envy that breeds malice when a mediocre talent meets a transcendent genius. In editing and reshaping his own text for Broadway, Shaffer makes jealousy a key factor in Salieri's persistent savaging of the hard-pressed Mozart in his attempts to secure court posts and paying pupils...
...billion windfall profits tax on oil companies became tempered after aides realized that he would need those tax revenues if he wanted to cut personal income taxes, accelerate business depreciation and increase defense spending. The political and economic trade-offs of presidential policymaking are about to become an important factor in energy policy...
...Wellesley students are this negative, however. Some women simply accept the isolation and concentrate instead on obtaining the excellent education that Wellesley has to offer--a factor that attracts many students in the first place. Getting admitted to Wellesley is no easy task. 71% of the students ranked in the top tenth of their high school class, and their SAT scores generally fall into the high...
...problems of financial review knocked Clifford Hansen, former Wyoming Governor and Senator, out of the Cabinet. At midweek he seemed certain to be Secretary of the Interior; at week's end he suddenly removed himself from consideration. The key factor was that Hansen's wife and daughter have permits to graze cattle in Grand Teton National Park, which is run by the Interior Department. Said Hansen: "I presume we'd have to forgo using the permits, and that would put us out of business...