Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mission is to manage the supply of money and credit in the banking system. By controlling the amount of cash available to banks, the Board of Governors affects interest rates and ultimately influences the level of inflation. The discreet actions of the Fed chairman and his colleagues have an impact on everything from the price of bread to the interest rate on a home mortgage...
...most revered economic leader of his era, and yet at times he stirred fire storms of public protest. He had profound impact on a $4.3 trillion economy but lived in a tiny $500-a-month apartment furnished with castoffs. He ran his agency in a notably serene and straightforward style, and still his mystique grew so potent that his every move sent global financial markets into spasmodic guessing games about what he was thinking. He towered physically above his colleagues, yet instead of lording over them and issuing orders in his basso profundo voice, he preferred to lean back...
Athol Fugard's great gift as a playwright has been an almost journalistic evocation of the distorting impact of apartheid on blacks and whites in his native South Africa, coupled with a lyric ability to lift those observations to the level of metaphor. It is not enough for an artist to be right-minded on even the most potent political issues of his day. To earn a lasting place in literature, to rank with Ibsen or Shaw or Brecht, he must also demonstrate subtlety of craft, power of language and insight into character -- and probably must reach beyond his immediate...
...Harvard name also can be an effective source of influence, some lawmakers say for the University. "Over the years Bok has written letters dealing with certain issues or problems and it has had an impact--it does command attention," says Clark...
However in some instances, Harvard faculty have become active in state issues. "Harvard lobbys get involved usually when there is something that directly affects Harvard, often historic interests. As a lobbying body, the greatest impact is from some of the faculty and staff in the education department--in the early 1970s one professor in the Education School was very active in school desegregation, and he had a great impact. Harvard activism does have a positive effect on those who get involved," says State Sen. Royal L. Bolling Sr. '47 (D-Boston...