Word: impacted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...while gobbling caramels - cellophane wrappers and all. Out of all that charging and chewing came a discovery that still shapes U.S. merchandising. "Imagine it," Wood recalls. "The country was filled with talk about the automobile. Henry Ford was making shopping mobile; yet not a single retailer saw what the impact would be." Except for Retailer Wood, that is. Reckoning future population trends on the basis of his own census studies, Wood badgered Sears into opening its first retail stores, initially in the Midwest and the West. Some of the early stores served only small neighborhoods -which have long since become...
...embracing the country's history and culture, its natural and architectural milieu, and the quality of the Spanish character-which Michener sums up in one evocative word, duende, meaning "mysterious and ineffable charm." All the immemorial sights are here too: the revelry following the feria at Seville, the impact of the roomful of Velázquez paintings at the Prado, the soaring, glowing Gothic church at León, the splendor of the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela. Michener's Tales of the South Pacific, The Source, and Hawaii brought him deserved standing as a competent if often...
That is the question upon which the impact of the current debate on the history of political science will fall...
...been punctuated by cries of "We'd better watch out or we're going to have another Berkeley on our hands" (administrators), "You'd better watch out or you'll have another Berkeley on your hands" (students), or "This community cannot afford another Berkeley" (faculty). But the impact of these warnings has been marred by the confusion over just what "another Berkeley" would be. It took four years to find out, but now it's clear: "another Berkeley" is Columbia...
...prime goals in attacking pollution ought to be a vast shrinkage of the human impact on other creatures. The war on insects, for example, might actually go a lot better without chemical pesticides that kill the pests' natural enemies, such as birds. One of the best strategies is to nurture the enemies so they can attack the pests; more insect-resistant crops can also be developed. Florida eliminated the screwworm fly not by spraying but by sterilizing hordes of the male flies, then liberating them to produce infertile eggs. A still newer method is the use of sex attractants...