Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indifference to aggression and human suffering. This is an insidious attack on society's age-old weapon of restraint: collective moral indignation. The so-called "truth" is very difficult to communicate accurately. It must only be broadcast after careful evaluation in the light of total communications impact, and with full awareness of the "other and distorted messages" conveyed by carelessness or sensationalism regarding timing, balance, intonation, emphasis, association, attitude and implications. In short, newscasting can no longer afford to be show business...
...contest was close: Rockefeller, 31.1%; Volpe, 30%; Nixon, 26.2%, with the balance scattered. Under a new state law, Rockefeller gets all 34 convention votes on the first ballot-after that delegates are free to switch. While a minor victory in terms of delegate strength, it had a psychological impact. One of the strongest anti-Nixon arguments within the party is that Rockefeller, while not an orthodox Republican, is a vote-getting Republican, and the Bay State vote gave that thesis a little lift...
...thing, the impact of human pollutants on nature can be vastly amplified by food chains, the serial process by which weak creatures are typically eaten by stronger ones in ascending order. The most closely studied example is the effect of pesticides, which have sharply improved farm crops but also caused spectacular kills of fish and wildlife. In the Canadian province of New Brunswick, for example, the application of only one-half pound of DDT per acre of forest to control the spruce budworm has twice wiped out almost an entire year's production of young salmon in the Miramichi...
...protests have clearly had an international impact. In Berlin, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo, student activists study the sit-in and seizure tactics that U.S. students used to protest the war, to desegregate Southern lunch counters and to immobilize the University of California in 1964. When television carries pictures of students demonstrating in London or Manhattan, students in Amsterdam and Prague start marching...
...Uneven Impact. Of course, the optimistic view is neither unanimous nor total. Many experts think that unemployment may jump briefly from its present low of 3.6% to a range of from 4½% to 5%. Painful though that would be to the workers affected, the situation would help to curb inflationary pay increases. Chicago Economist John Langum expects a drop in business inventories, corporate profits, personal income and consumer spending to add up to "a moderate recession." In any case, the impact of peace will hit industries, areas and manpower unevenly. Many industries likely to lose war business-autos, textiles...