Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...debate goes on. More quietly, but it does remain, surrounding even the most basic issues. Kaufman admits the impact of a Corporation vote is extremely small. No matter how much work the ACSR does, only 1 per cent of any stock can be shifted by Harvard's vote. "I'm not sure this accomplishes anything and that's bad," he says, adding, "But for Harvard not to vote or abstain on any of these issues would be bad, too." Fall 1980. There are shades of gray between the black and white of spring...
...million. Similarly, foundation solicitations are not likely to produce more than 10 per cent of the goal. Beverly Bennett, director of foundations and development services, says that luring foundations to contribute can prove challenging, since many organizations "are much more interested in giving to programs with a social impact than they are in giving to an unrestricted fund--professorships are not terribly interesting." The foundation-coaxing process thus involves, first, uncovering foundations that do find causes such as academic endowment exciting. After the initial contact Bennett's office makes with the institution, the University sends development officials, Dean Rosovsky...
REAL VIOLENCE IS, for most of us, still hideous, threatening, mesmerizing. And when a cameraman caught the murder of newsman Bill Stewart in Nicaragua last summer, all the cinematic bloodletting in the world couldn't equal the impact of that hazy, distant shot of a rifle discharging into the prone body. It was a violation...
Even men in our time who grew up around politics and matured in a power environment were astonished at the changes in how they were perceived when they reached the presidential level. Six months after taking office, John Kennedy was still marveling to friends over the deep impact of his words around the world. And Lyndon Johnson loved the idea that a few of his comments delivered from the White House could send the stock market up or down five points in an hour...
...ways to improve quality and output. Both Government and business are setting aside past acrimony and seeking ways to revitalize Detroit. The roles and responsibilities of workers, managers and Government officials in the auto industry are rapidly changing, and the new industrial order developed there will have a profound impact on all U.S. business...