Word: impactful
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...jobs to women following an internal study which found that career enhancing assignments for both enlisted women and officers were unnecessarily limited. It found frustration among its female ranks and sexual harassment rampant throughout the service. The Navy has addressed questions that the Kennedy School should not ignore. What impact does polarization among men and women, and dead-end career opportunities, have on the productivity of an organization? How can problems be identified? What can be done to ensure a work environment which discourages hostility among employees? And how does all of this change when a woman is in charge...
Laser uses the same basic technology as CDs and delivers the same clarity and impact. Laser players (which start in the U.S. for a little over $400) have friendlier features than VCRs, and the latest models -- "combi machines" -- can play both compact and laser discs. These newly available combis will likely heat up the laser market even further. In Japan, where the laser business is now valued at $1.5 billion, the major electronics companies are gearing up for a grand-scale manufacturing push, and Sony will start to sell its laser-disc player in the U.S. this spring...
Slowed recovery has a profound impact when it comes to illness. With advancing years, bones take longer to knit, wounds to heal and infections to clear up. Ultimately, says Cassel, the difference is that a "healthy young person can lose a lung, a kidney and do fine. And so too an old person can be doing fine, but then he has a stroke, a heart attack, whatever. Because of the stress, it's much more likely that all the major organs will go one after the other...
...laser videodisc, revived by the popularity of its audio cousin the CD, is bringing movie- house clarity and impact to home viewing...
...when Ball turned 40 in 1951, she still had not made a lasting mark on the entertainment industry, despite her 75 movie roles until that time. It was with the debut of I Love Lucy in October 1951 that Ball's pioneering impact was felt--behind the screen as well...