Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...output analysis by 35 interested foreign countries, the United States government has completely neglected the system in recent years. The last table devised for the U. S. economy was the 450-category chart made up in 1947. Interest at that time was occasioned by a wish to know the impact throughout the economy of an expansion of government spending on arms--the extent to which other types of production would have to contact, and the "bottle necks" that might arise...
...Sinclair Oil Vice President Millard E. Stone, "that the country can no longer afford to let management be handcuffed by archaic work rules which prevent maximum efficiency, nor by the kind of uneconomic wage increases which subject the public to further inflationary pressures. Our continued failure to recognize the impact of labor costs on our competitive standing has brought us to the point where we stand to lose our domestic and foreign markets...
...merely the few major book-buying centers where publishers often concentrate their selling. Says Joseph A. Duffy, executive director of the American Booksellers Association: "It is well known among publishers and booksellers that a mention of a book in TIME leads to sales. In fact, TIME'S impact is regarded as one of the two or three most potent book promotion factors in the industry...
...impact on the uncommitted depends not only on the level of our economic aid but equally importantly on the dynamism and conviction of our domestic performance. It is with respect to the latter that I said that the present pedantry in the West is not likely to prove very appealing to the new nations. The whole point of my remarks, however, was that the United States could easily double its economic aid program, that Western Europe could participate at our present level and that this should be a joint effort...
Acorns & Juniper Berries. With 208 babies being born every minute, the population of the world is expected to increase by about 49 million people in 1959, may well jump from the present 2.8 billion to more than 6 billion by the turn of the century. And because the first impact of modern medical techniques on a primitive society is a startling drop in the death rate, the bulk of this explosive population increase has occurred in the underdeveloped nations: the combined population of Asia, Africa and Latin America has increased by 600 million since 1936, is expected to jump another...