Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carefully weighed at the Texas institution, are all but ignored at Harvard, officials say. "Our differentials between salaries in the sciences and humanities are smaller than they are at almost any other university in the country." Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky has boasted. "This has an important impact on the morale of the entire Faculty: we're all engaged in a common intellectual enterprise...
...since the Depression had Americans used the mechanisms of initiative and referendum, those venerable tools of direct democracy, in greater numbers or with wider impact. From cracking down on crime to denying electroshock therapy in Berkeley, Calif., there were 237 statewide ballot measures in 42 states and the District of Columbia. California fielded the most, a bumper-sticker crop...
...bias against new procedures espoused by doctors in private practice, as opposed to those "in the hallowed halls of academe." Among the A.A.O.'s concerns about R/K is the fact that results can vary widely from surgeon to surgeon. In addition, little is known about the long-term impact of R/K: patients may ultimately be high-risk candidates for cataracts or other problems. "R/K decreases the amount of nearsightedness in virtually every case," concedes Dr. George Waring of Emory University, "but the decrease is not predictable." Waring, who chairs a five-year study on 500 R/K patients...
Such a classification is intended to prevent federal funds used in construction from having an adverse impact on buildings, according to local officials...
Already in the opening stages we note the classic impact of the catalytic figure--the outsider--plunging through to the centre of an ordered world and setting up the disruptions...which unless I am much mistaken will strip these comfortable--these crudaceans in the rock pool of society--strip them of their shells and leave them exposed as the trembling raw meat which, at heart...