Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morning, private dollar sales began and continued in such heavy volume that American greenbacks fell about 5% against major currencies that day alone. For the rest of the week, though, the dollar drifted down slowly enough, despite actual, coordinated sales by the five governments, to leave the long-range impact of the devaluation drive in doubt. Money traders believe the five governments have specifically targeted the dollar-yen exchange rate; the yen gained 8.8% last week against the greenback, vs. 5.8% for the French franc and 3.6% for the British pound. There is no question that a lower price...
...full impact of the calamity was brought home at burial grounds like the dusty San Lorenzo Tezonco cemetery on the southern outskirts of Mexico City. On a typical day last week, hundreds of bereaved relatives filed through San Lorenzo to pay their last respects to loved ones buried in hastily fashioned wooden coffins. Some 170 people were interred during a single day, a total that did not include the mass burial of an unknown number of mangled, unidentified corpses...
...officials began looking ahead to the next stages of the relief operation, which include relocation and health services for the living and the city's eventual reconstruction. In one sense, Mexico City had been lucky: key industrial sectors of the city were undamaged by the quake, meaning that the impact of the disaster on the national economy was less than some had feared...
Business correspondence should be simple and brief, Baldrige declares. She proudly reports that soon after her brother, Malcolm Baldrige, became Secretary of Commerce in 1981, he programmed the department's word processors to reject such business jargon as "to prioritize," "bottom line" and "impact" used as a verb. The smart business executive meticulously manages what may seem to be minor concerns. Writes Baldrige: "Details linked together create a strong, effective executive presence that propels an individual upward in his or her career...
List the job title and name of the organization you worked for, followed by a concise description of functions performed and accomplishments. Use action verbs to state what responsibilities you carried out, and use numbers such as size of budget, workers supervised, persons served, reports written, to add impact. Don't say, "Responsible for ..." This doesn't communicate what you did or what you achieved. Don't list the name and phone number of a reference. If you have letters of reference from the supervisors of your most responsible positions you may want to attach them...