Contributing factors include the popularity of stories by Charles Dickens in nineteenth-century America ( with their emphasis on generous gift-giving ), introduction of more secular traditions over the past two centuries ( such as the American Santa Claus ), and the rise in popularity of New Year's Eve parties.

Contributing Editors Anatole Brown and Patrick Reynolds each wrote one strategy guide each month, in addition to their work on the " Japan Report " and " Download Den " columns, respectively.

Contributing to the circumstances was a lack of control of their activities by site supervisors.

Contributing buildings were all fifty years old or older and retained enough of their original physical character to adequately embody the sense of time, place, and historic association normally required in establishing a historic district.

Contributing to the musical program was a Schoenstein pipe organ, installed in 1982.

Contributing to the Dolchstoßlegende, its failure was blamed on strikes in the arms industry at a critical moment of the offensive, leaving soldiers without an adequate supply of materiel.

Hazlitt himself was on the masthead of National Review, either as a Contributing Editor or, later, as Contributor, from its inception in 1955 until his death in 1993.

The Financial Services Act 2010, which was passed by Parliament on 8 April 2010, gave the FSA the additional statutory objective of " Contributing to the protection and enhancement of the stability of the UK financial system " and removed the public awareness objective.

Contributing artists and writers worked on the strip over the years, including Stephen Slesinger who scripted and approved all of the stories until his death in 1953 ; Jim Gary, Edmund Good, John Wade (" Johnnie ") Hampton, Robert MacLeod and Bill Lignanti ( of The Palm Restaurant fame ).

Contributing to the demise was the Medellín Cartels ' Rodriguez Gacha, who attempted to move in on the New York City market, previously ceded to the Cali Cartel, and the 1986 arrest of Jorge Ochoa at a police roadblock, an arrest the Medellín Cartel believed was suspicious and which they attributed partly to the Cali Cartel.

He's a person who is a regular contributor to the magazine, but he is not on staff .... Mort decided to quit as a Contributing Editor because, he said, he had a few TV projects in development.

Contributing to this separatist sentiment were those frontiersmen who believed that the national government was not doing enough to protect them from the Native American attacks on western frontier in the final years of the Revolutionary War.

Contributing the essay on himself for The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Clute accurately wrote that his " criticism, despite some curiously flamboyant obscurities, remains essentially practical ; it has appeared mostly in the form of reviews, some of considerable length.

She is instead listed as “ Contributing Editor ,” though this designation remains on the masthead only one month.

Built in the late 19th-century for residential purposes, the commercial buildings are designated as Contributing property | contributing properties to the Downtown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

* Contributing, on both process and substance, behind the scenes support and advice to critical peace negotiations, e. g., in Sudan, Burundi, Northern Uganda, Aceh, Nepal and Kenya ;

* David Margolick 1970 – Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair ; National Legal Affairs Correspondent, The New York Times ; author of At the Bar, Undue Influence: The Epic Battle for the Johnson & Johnson Fortune, Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song, Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling and a World on the Brink

Contributing to these feelings were the positions taken by the George W. Bush administration on international issues: for example, American policies on global warming and environmental protection, on the International Criminal Court, on pre-emptive attack, and what has long been perceived as a policy of stubborn unilateralism practiced by successive American governments culminating in the Bush administration and especially the neoconservatives within it.

Others who worked for the magazine include Art Directors Lisa Beattie and Ione Jefferies ; Executive Editors Charlotte Chen ( who wrote the " Pokémon Report " and " Final Fantasy World " columns ), Anatole Brown ( who wrote the " Japan Report " section and later became a Contributing Editor ), Jim Loftus and Wataru Maruyama ; Senior Editors Tyrone Rodriguez, Geoff Arnold ( who wrote the " Twisting Nether " column ), Ara Shirinian ( who went on to work at Rainbow Studios ), Jason Wilson ( who wrote the " Tournament Report " column ); and Entertainment Editor Abigail " Abbie " Heppe ( who usually wrote the " Games on Film " section ) and who is now Games Editorial Manager for X-Play on G4.

Contributing to the ambiguity of its definition, when reviewing previously written texts on cluttering, researchers noted sixty-five different associated symptoms.

Contributing money to an UGMA account on another person's behalf could be subject to gift tax however the Internal Revenue Code of the United States allows persons to give up to the annual gift tax exclusion to another person without any gift tax consequences as long as total gifts are below the lifetime limits.

Contributing the single " Boss of Me " as the theme song to the hit television series Malcolm in the Middle, as well as to the show's compilation CD, brought a new audience to the band.

Contributing to these rudder pedal inputs were characteristics of the Airbus A300-600 sensitive rudder system design and elements of the American Airlines Advanced Aircraft Maneuvering Training Program.

Contributing members were: AER20-200, awaycaboose, Ditzky, Drn Drn, Foucault V, fydhws, Hox Vox, Lurholm, mexicanvader, Quendus, Res Band ,-Soundso-and speculativism.

Contributing writers were Desmond Child, Christina Amphlett of Divinyls, Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, Diane Warren, and Frank Previte.

Contributing to the popularity of public baths in the Edo period were female bathing attendants known as yuna ( 湯女, lit.

In 2012 the twins were interviewed by National Geographic Society Contributing Editor Jordan Schaul about horse slaughter legislation.

Contributing to the accident were the flight crew's ( 1 ) impaired performance resulting from fatigue and the situational stress associated with the intent to land under the circumstances, ( 2 ) continuation of the approach to a landing when the company's maximum crosswind component was exceeded, and ( 3 ) use of reverse thrust greater than 1. 3 engine pressure ratio after landing.

Contributing to the accident were errors concerning the implementation of a safety recommendation which had been made by the manufacturer to Fokker 50 operators.

Contributing to the peasant unrest were conspiracy theories that the lack of food was a deliberate plot by the nobility.

Publisher Sarhan responded: " My impression of Mort was that he was stuck in a time warp, wanted to relive his personal ' glory days ' when he edited CRACKED and didn ’ t get what we were trying to do .... A Contributing Editor is a freelancer with whom we have a relationship with.

In June 1980 the South Taieri region experienced severe floods that flooded both sides of the highway and extended as far as Dunedin Airport. Contributing factors to this were already full wetlands at Lake Waihola with the Taieri and Waipori Rivers both draining into this area.

Contributing factors were inexperienced guards, lapses in accountability, complacency, lack of leadership presence, poor visibility, and lack of clear and concise communication between the guards and the leadership.

Contributing to this, areas of the bodywork that were to be covered by plastic trim ( such as the front and rear bumpers ) were left unpainted and thus unprotected.

Contributing to this was the fact that there were no bleachers in left or center fields ; all outfield seating ( about 4, 500 seats ), were in the semi-trapezoid-shaped right field stands that came to be known as the " Sun Deck " ( or, in the case of night games, the " Moon Deck ").

Contributing to its mounting popularity by this time were the additions from similarly popular genres such as zarzuela and the popular Italian operas of the time, which increasingly made the sardana a fad dance.

Contributing writers were Emilie Carter, Charles Hughes, Liz Schulze, Charles Taylor, and Christopher Title.

Contributing to the accident were the pilots ’ failure to make standard callouts and the current Federal Aviation Regulations that allow pilots to descend below the minimum descent altitude into a region in which safe obstacle clearance is not assured based upon seeing only the airport approach lights.

Contributing to the continued popularity of the game is the ability-especially earlier on-to easily collect the cards due to the more common distribution and the smaller set size ( although as of 2006 there were over 1, 800 unique cards ).

Contributing to the work were public and private health and quality organizations, including the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Committee for Quality Assurance, URAC, and the Joint Commission.

Contributing with lithographs, woodcuts, and ( after 1870 ) with zincographies ( gillotage ) were:

Contributing to the cause of the accident were the inappropriate procedures used by, and inadequate coordination between, the flight crew that led to a takeoff rotation at a lower than prescribed air speed.