For several decades now, researchers have pointed to excessive care as an important factor behind spiraling health care costs.

几十年来，一直有研究人员指出过度诊疗是隐藏在节节攀升的医疗费用背后的一个重要因素。

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He combined several fixes to bring the time down to one minute — a factor of 500 over where he started!

他结合多次修正，结果使时间降到了一分钟，是他一开始所用时间的五百分之一。

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We also had to factor in that Rails applications are typically distributed across multiple process and machine boundaries (i.e. packs of Mongrels spread across several servers).

我们还必须考虑多处理器、多机器上的典型分布式Rails应用的因素(即，跨多服务器的Mongrel包)。

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"Although a catalyst may appear to be obvious, suicide is never the result of a single factor or event and is likely to have several interrelated causes, " Johnstone said on the group's website soon after news emerged of Saldanha's death.

CNN: Nurse death sparks outrage, casts glare on 'shock jocks'

Hagel was in line for hard questions from the 26-member Senate committee at a confirmation hearing Thursday that was expected to be a determining factor in the vote of several senators.

NPR: Hagel Says Military View Shaped By Vietnam

We wanted to know if Ultrabooks will eventually replace Laptops, what was the motivation behind the decision to make Haswell Ultrabooks touch only and if there's one form factor from the several available that's winning the popularity war.

ENGADGET: Kirk Skaugen reveals why Intel made touch mandatory for Haswell Ultrabooks