Word: impactions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...same impact is felt at schools of social work. * Enrollment in the nation's 59 graduate schools has increased over the past ten years from about 3,500 to more than 8,000. The U.S.C. Graduate School of Social Work has doubled its faculty in the past five years, still turns away increasing numbers of applicants. Boston University's School of Social Work is looking for housewives with social work degrees to fill faculty vacancies. The nationwide Council for Social Work received 45,000 inquiries about career possibilities this year (three times that of a year ago), reports...
...discover America," declared Lindsay, "is as silly as saying DiMaggio doesn't know anything about baseball or that Toscanini and Caruso were not great musicians." Governor Nelson Rockefeller, whose son, Steven, has a Norwegian wife, at first voyaged rather bravely into the controversy: "As far as the impact of Columbus' voyage is concerned, he discovered America." Later he carefully added that he did not mean to take anything away from the Vikings Why, said he, "I have a Viking daughter-in-law myself...
...business. Last week in Manhattan, Federal Highway Administrator Rex M. Whitton announced that the vast program to build 41,000 miles of interstate highway has just about reached the halfway mark: 19,950 miles opened, another 6,100 miles under construction. There is nothing halfway, though, about the economic impact that the $46.8 billion program has already made on dozens of areas across...
...Brazil contemplates the unsettling results of the gubernatorial elections just held in eleven states (see THE HEMISPHERE), another kind of vote is making its impact on the country. It is a vote of confidence in Brazil's economy, and it is being cast every week by foreign investors...
Rather than cartoons, Edward Kienholz, 38, goes in for whole stage sets (or "tableaux," as he calls them) that have the grisly impact of a charnel house, yet on second glance present deeply shocking morality plays. Birthday, says the well-spoken former farmer, should express the hope offered by even the most forlorn birth. Giant plastic arrows express resurrection, even if with a tainted blatancy; the plastic bubble above the mannequin mother's mouth, actually a dimestore baby's plastic bubble, symbolizes a scream. It is theater, embalmed in translucent epoxy and cluttered with props-a ghostly coat...