Word: affected
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Committee is extremely concerned that the Department of City and Regional Planning is placing far too much emphasis on the social sciences and policy analysis and far too little on planning as an interventionist discipline. Its practitioners are supposed to make creative decisions which affect events. A medical school set up in an analogous way, with a curriculum consisting mainly of biology and bio-chemistry, and little emphasis on diagnosis and clinical practice, would not offer a very sound medical education. Dorn C. McGrath, Jr., Chairman of the Department of City and Regional Planning at George Washington University...
Policy analysis is not urban planning and, unlike the other design disciplines, does not share "a basic reliance upon creativity and the ability of the practitioner to synthesize content from several fields and to formulate and apply physical, as well as social, economic and political principles to affect the natural and man-made environment...
...sewer renovation will affect all areas of the city, Conrad C. Fagone, commissioner of public works, said yesterday...
...geopolitics and invited ideologically diverse civilian experts to lecture. In a 1973 address at the college, he warned that if military minds did not shape up fast, "the think tanks will be doing our thinking for us." He spurred far-ranging brainstorming seminars on how recent international developments affect U.S. strategy. One topic, for example, was the role of U.S. naval power at a time when the nation had begun importing increasing amounts of essential resources...
...hard-and-fast guidelines businessmen and labor leaders would be expected to follow. That leaves jawboning against individual pay and price hikes, but Carter would like to avoid noisy public confrontations. So his advisers have been passing the word that corporate and union chiefs planning increases that could significantly affect the economy should talk them over with Administration officials privately in advance...