Word: impactful
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...goal of divestment is to "send a message" to the Board of Directors of a company and/or other stockholders, why use such an indirect means as the sale of stock, which has no impact on the company? Why not stand up at a stockholders meeting and directly tell the Board of Directors (within earshot of other stockholders) exactly what you think? Selling stock deprives one of this opportunity and has no effect on the company's conduct of business. Samuel O. Sheargren...
...positive change in South Africa. It would be difficult to maintain commitment to a cause without the hope of it achieving some great and just result. But when questions are raised concerning the possibility that withdrawal of Harvard's "investment" in South Africa might have only a minimal economic impact on conditions there--or perhaps even a negative one--divestment activists are quick to respond that divestment is necessary if only for moral reasons...
...victory for the Federal Government in its drive to prosecute members of a nationwide movement that seeks to give church sanctuary to Central American refugees who have entered the U.S. illegally. The outcome of the case, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Donald Reno, "is going to have a significant impact on those persons (in the movement) who were well intended but misguided...
Nonetheless, Chernobyl cannot help having an impact on the beleaguered U.S. nuclear industry. Even before the accident at Three Mile Island melted down the credibility of pronuclear organizations, the industry was in trouble. Caught between climbing construction costs, high interest rates and unexpectedly slow growth in the demand for electricity, American utilities stopped ordering new nuclear plants in 1978. After the accident at Three Mile Island, some reactor salesmen tossed away their order books entirely...
While the lack of detailed information makes estimates of the health impact extremely difficult, Wagner offered further guidance. At distances of perhaps three to four miles, victims stood a fifty-fifty chance of surviving, though not without bone-marrow andgastrointestinal-tract damage. People living five to seven miles from the accident could experience nausea and other symptoms but would be unlikely to die. Smaller amounts of radiation within a range of 60 miles from the site would result in significantly increased deaths from leukemia and other forms of cancer during the next 30 years. People living 200 miles or more...