Word: impactful
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...despite the lower salary he receives as a member of the academic world, Andreassen enjoys the freedom and rewards of his work. "I love to teach and be surrounded by students who are trying to change--you can have an impact," the psychology professor says. "Besides, you get a parking space behind William James Hall...
USDA officials argue that the cattlemen and the futures markets have overreacted to what will be a temporary increase in supplies, but ranchers say that the short-term impact is proving to be severe. Nor are they comforted to know that dairy cattle produce low-quality meat, which cannot compare with tastier ranch beef. "Any extra tonnage is bad," says Paul Hitch, owner of a major feedlot in Guymon, Okla. "If a million cut-rate Chevies come on the market, even Cadillac is going to lose some sales...
...symbol, represents the distance, the apartness, and the isolation of universities. Yet our university cannot be a removed entity." Instead, it is the divestiture movement which is erecting its own ivory tower by supporting self-indulgent moral isolationism. One of the few manners in which Americans can have some impact on the internal workings of a sovereign nation is through the constructive use of investment. Using investment as a means toward social and political progress may not bring about an overnight solution, but divestment leaves us with no influence at all. Instead, it robs Blacks of jobs and isolates...
...expendable for the sake of economic efficiency and lower prices. My family lives in Texas, and I can tell you that the oil crisis hurts everyone in Texas--from the urban poor to the middle class to the oil magnates. Your editorial shows not only ignorance of the economic impact of collapsing oil prices--on Third World debtor nations like Mexico as well as on regional U.S. economies--but also some Yankee bigotry. Your attitude is "Screw Texas and the other oil states because we've been screwed by high oil prices in the past...
...economic adjustment. The same economic process which left thousands unemployed in the auto and steel industries is now affecting workers in the oil states. Our response to this regional depression shouldn't be joyful declarations of "Christmas in April," but a concerted governmental effort to minimize the short-term impact of falling oil prices--through programs to aid dislocated workers and some form of world price stabilization...