Word: impactful
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Meanwhile, Republican resistance to Vice President George Bush's bid for the White House began crumbling yesterday as the impact of his fabulous Super Tuesday showing sank...
...Says Domestic Policy Adviser Gary Bauer: "We wouldn't dismiss anything just because of the cost." Still, skeptics doubt whether the President or Congress will really use the ambitious blueprint as a guide. Watkins professes to be unconcerned. "It's not in our charter to worry about the political impact," he said. "There has not been a national strategy. The national policy is now being built...
...symptomatic of amnesia. The campaign for an open meeting with the Harvard Corporation (to discuss the possibility of divestment from South Africa) and the push for students' rights to affect the tenure process have dominated council agendas since I have been a member. Although U.C. efforts to have an impact upon Harvard, national or world politics have proved fruitless, one cannot deny that the efforts existed. Taking a stand on political issues like that of the final clubs enjoys incontrovertible precedence; having an impact on such issues enjoys none...
...rise in black purchasing power is having a marked impact on the national economy. More and more companies are boosting their sales figures by targeting their products to the black consumer, who now buys almost half of all items sold at retail. Kellogg's, one of the few U.S.-linked companies that continue to maintain a high profile in South Africa, last year established an annual "excellence in achievement award" to encourage black entrepreneurship. New organizations, such as the Business Achievers Foundation and the Black Management Forum, are promoting black business and financial interests...
...Harvard Graduate School of Education, researchers have tried to evaluate the impact of For Spacious Skies programs on elementary school students. Using specially developed tests, researchers concluded that the artistic, musical and literary skills of students exposed to the programs improved much faster than did those of nonparticipating youngsters. Skies students scored 37% higher in music appreciation, 13% higher in literary skills and 5% higher in sensitivity to art. "Something happened to these kids," marvels Market Researcher Anton Morton, who helped analyze the results. "They learned much more and grew much more...