Word: impactful
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...productivity gains may be undermeasured, but so what? They are no more wrongly estimated, he says, than in precomputer decades. Besides, computers are not exactly brand-new: commercial mainframes date back more than 40 years; PCs, 15 or 20 years. In all that time, they should have had greater impact, even on measured productivity...
Wyss, Sinai and other members of TIME's board think the new cut by itself is too small to have much impact. Other rates, on bonds for example, had already been adjusted downward in anticipation of a Fed move. But it is a heartening sign that Greenspan and the other Fed governors have become convinced that a worsening slowdown is now a greater threat than renewed inflation. Since Greenspan has long preferred to move rates in a series of small, repeated steps, the economists on TIME's board devoutly hope that more reductions will follow, late this year...
...least, is one of the revelations to be found in "Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture," the largest ever exhibition on the founder of modern psychology, set to open next week at the Library of Congress in Washington. Along with some 200 TV and film clips that document Freud's impact on popular culture, visitors will get to peruse 170 artifacts from the library's 80,000-item Freud collection. They include home movies of the Viennese doctor as an old man, facsimiles of his desk and couch, handwritten notes on his famous cases, and little-seen letters, among them...
Certainly the debate over Freud rages on. His theories of the unconscious and the impact of early-childhood experiences on our adult psyches, his methods of psychoanalysis, his very vocabulary--the id and superego, repression and libido--are the foundation on which modern psychology is built. Yet most practitioners no longer adhere strictly to his approach. Some critics have claimed that his theories were based on shaky science or were contaminated by Freud's mistakes and manipulation of patients. Traditional Freudian analysis is now practiced by only a small cadre, overshadowed by drug therapies and short-term counseling more likely...
...edges, the album is nothing like it might be if its voice were a more conventional pop singer, but not necessarily worse. While at times, the straining quality of his voice threatens to upstage the songs' subtle sophistication and pop pedigree, the overall effect is to deepen their emotional impact...