Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Emboldened by their success, student activists asked for another open meeting of the ACSR this spring, at which they asked it to recommend to the Corporation to sell the stock of any companies in its portfolio with ties to South Africa. Their pleas apparently had some impact on the advisory body. For the first time ever, the ACSR voted on a resolution recommending complete divestiture, and narrowly defeated it by a vote of 6 to 5, with one abstention. The abstaining member then changed his vote, bringing it to an even 6 to 6 split. The resolution did not pass...
...only Black and only woman on the council, explains that about 4000 of the city's 10,418 Blacks are eligible to vote and registration drives are planned for later in the year by the Cambridge NAACP chapter. "I really do believe that Chicago and Philadelphia have had an impact on Boston and Cambridge," she says...
Businessmen in Texas have always had an outsize impact, whether they were cattle ranchers, oil wildcatters or the modern-day bankers and real estate financiers. Says Scott Bennett, executive director of the Texas hall: "Business is a state religion in Texas." The Hall of Fame is supposed to be its cathedral, but no permanent site has yet been selected...
...attempt to measure the impact of "life change events," Holmes and Psychologist Richard Rahe, working together in the 1940s and '50s, asked 5,000 people to rate the amount of social readjustment required for various events. The result is the widely used Holmes-Rahe scale. At the top is death of a spouse (100 stress points), followed by divorce (73), marital separation (65), imprisonment (63) and death of a close family member (63). Not all stressful events are unpleasant. Marriage rates 50; pregnancy, 40; buying a house, 31; and Christmas, 12. Holmes went on to show that...
...impact of major life events on health has been reconfirmed many times. A study published earlier this year in the British medical journal Lancet reported that the incidence of fatal heart attacks rose sharply in Athens in the days following the 1981 earthquake there. Stanford Neurochemist Barchas has found that a high score on the Holmes-Rahe scale is linked to elevated levels of the hormones associated with stress: adrenaline (which scientists have re-christened epinephrine), norepinephrine and beta-endorphin. An Australian study of bereavement has shown that eight weeks after the death of their spouses, widows and widowers have...