Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bailey was clearly worried about the impact that Patty's repeated citing of the Fifth and Judge Carter's warning would have on the jury. "The Government got what it wanted," he said later in bitterness. "They embarrassed her. The damage is done...
Portman began brashly in 1953, after graduating from the Georgia Institute of Technology and serving his apprenticeship with an Atlanta architectural firm. Says he: "I wanted to have an impact and was too impatient to wait for someone else to hire me." So he opened his own office in Atlanta. While professional groups winced-architects were thought to be in conflict of interest if they developed property-he designed a striking medical center for rental but could not get it financed. He did better with Atlanta's Merchandise Mart, a blocky 22-story building of showrooms and sales offices...
...ambitious reach, but not, alas, his grasp of the subject. The story is drawn by Floyd himself from A Mirror for Witches, a historical novel by Esther Forbes. The libretto is as cluttered with conflicts as an O'Neill play, but it does not have half the dramatic impact. This comes as something of a surprise. Floyd's creed is that opera can succeed today only if the composer pays as careful attention to plot as if he were writing a play: the audience must believe the story...
Harner has studied the internalization of expectations in men and women, focusing on its sustained impact throughout life...
...involved in the industrial expansion of the 60s, they have remained on the margins of subsistence. Though Puerto Ricans have the highest per capita income of Latin America, 63.4 per cent of the population had incomes below the federal poverty level in 1970. The recent recession had a devastating impact on Puerto Rico: unemployment is officially 20%, but unofficially admitted to be 35%. Even when employment is available, the average industrial wage, $2.29, is half the comparable figure for U.S. workers. Despite this drastic crisis, those Puerto Ricans suffering the most have undertaken little organized protest, perhaps because welfare benefits...