  Nuclear modification factors (NMFs) applied to A-B collision systems consist
of $p_t$ spectrum ratios rescaled by an estimated number of nucleon-nucleon
binary collisions. Interest in NMFs is motivated by possible modification
(suppression?) of jet production in more-central A-B collisions conjectured to
arise from a deconfined quark-gluon plasma or QGP. Interpretation of NMFs is
complicated by the so-called Cronin effect wherein similar ratios derived from
fixed-target p-A data exhibited suppression at lower $p_t$ and enhancement at
higher $p_t$ with increasing atomic weight A. This presentation describes
precision analysis of identified-hadron spectra from 5 TeV $p$-Pb collisions
that accurately isolates the entire jet contribution. Evolution of NMF spectrum
ratios with $p$-Pb centrality is interpreted in terms of variation of
corresponding jet contributions to spectra. The same method is then applied to
Chicago-Princeton fixed-target spectrum data from the seventies wherein the
Cronin effect was first observed. Soft and hard particle densities vary as
fixed powers of $A$. Inferred jet contributions are quantitatively consistent
with extrapolation from higher energies. The Cronin effect is a simple result
of rescaling particle-density spectra by factor $1/A^{1/3}$.
