The stock market no longer is a plus factor in adding to personal wealth which made back half its way to the pre-2007 highpoint.

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The low cost-of-carry for gold is no longer a major plus factor.

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That led to a pair of Supreme Court decisions in 2003, striking down the school's undergraduate admissions formula, which gave an automatic boost to minority applicants, while upholding its law-school admissions criteria, which administrators said used race as a flexible "plus factor" for certain candidates.

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It includes everything you need for a one-day BluePrint juice cleanse, plus a three- to four-hour Clearing Factor spa treatment and a private yoga class.

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Speed is also a factor: Cost-plus deals diminish negotiating time once the contractor's fee has been set.

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On the plus side, housing is finally turning into a positive factor after a long decline.

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Plus those Chinese manufacturing wages have risen by a factor of four at least since the turn of the millennium.

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However the results of the investigation conducted at the end of 2008 reveal that vast majority of the Earth scientists surveyed agree that in the past 200-plus years, mean global temperatures have been rising and that human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures.

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