Word: impactions
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...There are still thousands of dedicated ministers, ranging from Liberal Harry Emerson Fosdick to Evangelist Billy Graham, who have been making a worthwhile impact upon the life and thought of America...
...Washington last week, the evidence was plain: the greatest country in the world is still going about it hit or miss. The confusion is so great that even Washington's own planners are worried. Bewildering, often contradictory directives pour out, without relation to each other or their combined impact on the economy. There is no master blueprint with which to fit all the pieces together or determine how big a burden the economy can stand. Belatedly, with a new cabalistic word ("programing"), the planners are now trying to draw a blueprint. In every bureau, secretaries chirp: "Sorry, the Administrator...
...enormous temple three times before he was satisfied that he had achieved just the right touch-and the box-office returns justified his little extravagance. For the big scene of The Greatest Show on Earth, now shooting, Producer DeMille's script ordered a train wreck with "a shattering impact of shattering steel and wood amid the crescendo of injured humans and screams of caged animals...
...business weathered the dislocations of rearmament and the impact of higher taxes? To find out, businessmen kept their eyes cocked anxiously on 1951's first-quarter earnings reports. Last week, as report after report told of alltime record sales and profits, it was clear that business had outperformed its expectations. Out of 176 companies which have reported so far, 135 had chalked up bigger net profits than in the first quarter...
...scandals dredged up in the college basketball fix investigation (TIME, Feb. 26 et seq.) prompted the New York Times to take a long (20 columns) look at "the impact of athletics on education." Times Reporter Charles Grutzner, working with twelve bird-dogging assistants, spent 3½ weeks covering 40 college campuses. By last week he had flushed a covey of shockers...