Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet items included in von Raab's proposal (automobile parts, clothing, camera lenses, wire fences, and mattresses) represent an insignificant part of U.S.-Soviet trade. A ban on such imports, especially if coordinated with our allies, might substantially reduce the economic attractiveness of slave labor, while having a minimal impact on our own economy...
...refusal has been costly both to individuals and to the community as a whole. For this reason, we feel it is important to shift the focus of public attention from Professor Dominguez to the issue of Harvard's responsibility for protecting its faculty, students and staff from the destructive impact of sexual harassment...
...recent publicity has also sparked a reaction of sympathy for the harasser. However, unfortunate as the consequences of public opprobrium may be, they should be considered before harassing one's students and colleagues. We should be concerned instead with the devastating impact this case has had on the lives and careers of the victims. Prevailing social attitudes tend to subject the victims of crimes like rape or sexual harassment to more scrutiny than the perpetrators, yet the victims in this case have far more at stake than does Professor Dominguez: their careers are not as well established, they...
...Herald's deliberations, the endorsement was "not just a discussion of who would govern the city best, but who has a reasonable chance to win and who would most benefit the Herald, He said editors asked. "Would he owe us? If we endorsed now, would we have impact. and which candidate would the endorsement help the most...
...Newspapers in competition want to be perceived as having clout and impact. The perception of clout might add to readership." That kind of endorsement sounds like reason enough to forget Finnegan. And the Globe. despite admirable restraint, is guilty of a similar small view Clout and influence. playing the percentages, all the pragmatic technicalities of politics have been the obsession of both papers...