Word: impactful
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Clearly, those who promote free trade can no longer ignore its non-economic implications. The standard arguments in favor of free trade still hold: It promotes growth and interdependence and helps developing countries improve their standards of living. However, globalization has a powerful impact on questions of labor and environmental protection, and those concerned about these effects will not be persuaded by only economic arguments. The protesters in Seattle saw the WTO and free trade as representative of interests fundamentally alien to their own; the coalition for free trade can only be rebuilt taking these concerns into account, with adequate...
...employees--whose work involves everything from transferring rare documents to microfilm to ordering and cataloguing recent materials--fear that moving off-campus will hurt the quality of their work and negatively impact the students and faculty they serve...
According to Donene Williams, treasurer of HUCTW, a union management committee that she chairs--known as the Technical Services Workgroup--already has been established to study the potential move's impact on workers and to negotiate with the administration...
...challenge for me with the agencies which impact my district was to get them to think in different ways. We do right by [voters] by thinking about ways about the ways we could solve problems," he says...
...carries out its threat to annihilate the population of Grozny, and Britain's Tony Blair warns Moscow that "we're watching you." But those warnings - and even the IMF's decision to withhold its latest aid installment because of Russia's campaign - appear to have had little impact on Moscow. Despite Monday's ultimatum by the Russian military that civilians should leave Grozny by Saturday or else "be destroyed," Russian forces continued their heavy shelling of the city Tuesday, making it impossible for civilians sheltering in the city to leave...