Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happened in the course of the last four years that I should have been happy about. Looking back, it seems to have been four years full of political change very close to what students were fighting for before I came here, but as victories they didn't have much impact on me. When I came here, Richard Nixon was being overwhelmingly reelected president; the United States was dropping countless tons of bombs on Vietnam and Cambodia and systematically killing people there; the Harvard faculty was over 95 per cent white and male; the University's tenants were trying to become...
...will have little effect on the recovery this year. There was also general agreement with Ford's estimate that real output will expand about 6.2% this year, compared to a 2% dip last year. But the economists are worried-and sharply at odds with one another-about the impact of the budget and its $43 billion deficit (down from $76 billion in fiscal 1976) in 1977 and beyond...
Strong Cadre. Nonetheless, the university's impact has been felt in a number of ways. During the Nixon Administration, the President and his top economic advisers embraced the monetarist theories of conservative Chicago Economist Milton Friedman. Chicago Political Scientist Leo Strauss impressed several generations of students with his vision of the general leftward trend of world politics. One of these students was Robert Goldwin, who now serves as President Ford's resident intellectual...
...last year. And Lockheed ($2.5 billion through September), which won 28 orders for the TriStar in 1974, did not get even one last year. (Military business, which accounts for more than half of each company's revenues, and deliveries of jetliners under old orders muffled the impact on profits...
Latter-day sociobiologists cannot contest the impact that Spencer's sociology-biology had on nineteenth-century society. The Social Darwinism of the time, much of which was rooted in Spencer's principles, gained popular acceptance and provided a handy justification for the status quo and for a repudiation of state interference on behalf of society's welfare. Because Spencer's society was evolving naturally, any such tampering would result in disaster. These theories, embraced by upper and middle classes alike in America, provided these classes with a rationale for opposing all social reform. The phrase "survival of the fittest," taken...