Word: impression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...start programs too quickly, without giving them sufficient thought or staffing. Then the department demands fast results. Says an official in the Social Security administration in Atlanta: "The people at HEW's management level want statistics showing that large numbers of claims have been processed so they can impress Congress with what a good job they are doing. They don't care anything about quality; all they want is quantity...
...shirts--even with unread textbooks and blank paper passively but menacingly there. It appears people will do anything to feel the warm caress of the sun on their creepy, winter-whitened, fish-belly flesh. On her right, a young man who had been complaining about his work, hoping to impress the girl next to him with brilliant talent for procrastination, has actually begun to play a harmonica and toss a frisbee simultaneously--the college student's Dylan imitation. And the red girl--my God, she begins to thump her drum as if moved by some invisible rhythm, her foot tapping...
...among urbanized young and dissatisfaction with pace of events has brought a shift in attitudes. Measures which only relieve hardships like marginal raises, subsidized meals, school fee allowances, and personal loans are seen as panaceas which evade question of basic rights of workers. Moreover benevolence toward workers which may impress stockholders at home fails to get at issue of whether presence of foreign firms represents collusion with and effort to profit from apartheid...
...There are a lot of people in this world who are suffering, and instead of finding a productive way to spend his money, Kwon has decided to spend his money on a silly, disgusting, and gaudy party just to impress his friends." Henry Chauncey, secretary of Yale University, said yesterday...
...move five U.S. divisions to Western Europe to join the four we now have there. While it will cost a lot of money to build barracks, to set up the logistics and so forth, it would be one of the most effective things we could do. It would impress the Russians that we are serious about our commitment to Europe...