Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jackson's agreements with corporations are relatively recent, and their long-term impact is impossible to predict. Since 1981, PUSH has signed contracts with five firms: Coca-Cola, Seven-Up, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Burger King and Southland Corp., which owns 7-Eleven minimarkets and Chief auto-parts stores. Jackson's goal in these agreements, which are not legally binding, is to get a dollar's worth of economic benefits for blacks in return for every dollar blacks spend on the companies' products, as determined through market research...
Factions have begun to emerge within the Green Party under the pressure of its new national role. On one side stand the "fundamentalists," dedicated to preserving the party's protest roots. On the other are the "pragmatists," who are more concerned with having an impact on national policy. The two groups are at odds over how to deal with potential violence in the peace movement. After 134 peace activists were arrested in Krefeld last June for attacking U.S. Vice President Bush's car with stones and paint bombs, Green Deputy Gert Bastian, a former general in the West...
...first, traders hardly noticed the intervention. Foreign-exchange markets swap tens of billions of dollars' worth of currency daily, and the U.S. actions had little impact. "The markets were not impressed," said one European banking official. To get their attention, Washington had to announce formally that it was intervening. That worked briefly, but once the psychological effect of the announcement had worn off, the dollar started climbing again and hit new records at the end of the week...
...understand that the end of a steelmaking job is not the end of the road. Bethlehem, where employment has gone from a peak of 115,000 in 1975 to 48,500 at present, was the first major U.S. corporation to develop a comprehensive program to deal with the emotional impact of permanent layoffs...
...love, attention, stimulation, education, in perhaps roughly that order. The research documents not only the importance of such needs but the damage that can occur when they go unanswered. Yet even these blessings of the latest orthodoxy can be overdone. "We are learning that everything will have an impact on an infant, but we still need to know exactly what happens," cautions Psychologist Rose Caron of George Washington University's Infant Research Laboratory in Silver Spring, Md. "It's conceivable that a child's competency might be diminished because of too much early stimulation...