Word: impacting
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Purging the Planners. The Development Board has made its share of mistakes. It failed to train enough people to staff the new schools, hospitals, factories. From a political point of view, it was too slow to add what experts call "impact" projects, i.e., works that hungry, impoverished Iraqis can see in front of them, instead of distant dams that take years to build. The board started only last year to build its first 2,500 low-cost housing units in the capital. Nuri confessed to Parliament last fall that the highway-building program had been "a failure," owing to inadequate...
When Edvard was 14. his elder sister Sophie died of tuberculosis. The delayed impact of his sister's death showed in Sick Child (opposite), a theme Munch first sketched when he was 22, continued obsessively in lithographs and oils. Owing some of its quality to the impressionist colors he had seen in Paris, it captures what he bore indelibly in his memory: "the pale head with bright red hair against the white pillow, the trembling lips, the transparent skin, the tired eyes...
...more careful look, Du Pont stock slipped back down. Both Du Pont and G.M. stock fluctuated nervously for the rest of the week, as everyone tried to figure out what the ruling meant-not only for Du Pont and G.M. but for the U.S. business community as well. The impact was as stunning as it was to the Justice Department itself, which up to the last minute had only the slimmest hopes of winning...
CHANGING VALUES IN COLLEGE: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF GENERAL EDUCATION IN SOCIAL SCIENCES ON THE VALUES OF AMERICAN STUDENTS, by Philip E. Jacob, The Edward W. Hazen Foundation, 178 pages...
Seeking to determine the effect of education on the values held by students, Jacob concludes that college has no fundamental impact on the students' basic values, and that what peripheral effect it has is not to be explained by the influence of the curriculum, of the instructor, or of the teaching methods used...