Word: impactful
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...anti-apartheid movement at Harvard will not be able to carry-off divestiture because the Harvard Corporation holds all of the levers on the University's endowment. But that does not mean that campus activists cannot have any impact on apartheid. It only means that the leaders have chosen so far to focus the movement on unachievable goals. There are goals other than divestiture that campus activists can pursue which will have a much greater effect in South Africa than endless frustrated protests over the University's investment policy...
...Joseph Valachi's disclosures set off an FBI bugging war against the families. In 1975 the most successful labor racketeering prosecution in U.S. history was supposed to have cleaned up the terror-ridden East Coast waterfront from Miami to New York. None of those highly publicized events had lasting impact...
...contend that the test does not work well with blacks. One study found that blacks and whites give significantly different responses on 213 of the 566 items. By 1960, with the test nearly two decades old, only four of the approximately 1,000 articles on the MMPI discussed its impact on blacks, and those four were confined to criminal and psychiatric populations. The test also needs better adaptation to the psychology of adolescence. For almost 40 years, some psychologists have noted that the MMPI profile of the normal youngster temporarily caught in adolescent turmoil is similar to that...
...point drop, to 1758.72, on Sept. 11 and 12 did not signal an economic downturn. Alan Greenspan, a Manhattan-based consultant who served as chief economic adviser to President Ford, estimated the Dow would have to go down another 200 to 300 points to have a significant impact on the economy. If stock prices fell that far, executives might curb their companies' capital investment and consumers might reduce their spending enough to trigger a recession. But the stock market steadied last week, rising 3.93 points to close at 1762.65. Investors took in stride the "triple witching hour." On the third...
Another danger is that the legislation could swell the already bloated federal budget deficit. Although the law was not intended either to raise or reduce revenues, TIME's economists agreed that no one can know for sure what its impact on the budget will be. And for all the rhetoric from Congress and the White House about the need to simplify the tax code, the reform bill still contains many vagaries. Tax shelters affecting real estate, for example, have + been effectively squelched, but those involving oil and gas exploration remain relatively untouched. In Aaron's view, the major business losers...