Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Commencement also has an impact outside of the ivied walls. By agreement with the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, construction work on the Red Line ceases one day a year. And while the MBTA workers get a day off, most of the Square's other employees are extra busy...
Read Our Harvard at one sitting for one leafing, while standing in the Coop), for its essays have much more impact cumulatively than separately. This is the story not so much of one Harvard but of three, and as such it says much about the curious hybrid we graduate from tomorrow...
...witnessing a globalization of many international issues. Events outside Europe and the U.S. have an impact on the Western world and affect our vital interests. It is necessary, therefore, that political consultations be broadened. A global policy has to reflect the complexity and diversity of international society. It has to be responsible to the needs and aspirations of the poor and suppressed who yearn for the same freedoms that we enjoy and strive to protect. If we reduce complexity and diversity to the simple question of Soviet-American competition, international relations will harden and the dangers of confrontation will increase...
...C.P.I. They predict that the index will meet the Administration's targets by rising just 5% for all of 1982 and 5.7% in 1983. The economists were particularly cheered by an unexpectedly sharp drop in the so-called core rate of inflation, which measures the inflationary impact of wage gains. That key indicator has fallen to about 6%, from a high of about 9% in 1980. Said Walter Heller, chief economic adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson: "A sustained period of 6% core inflation is a very substantial improvement." Adds Charles Schultze, chief economic adviser to President Carter...
...Chase Manhattan, the impact of the default was plain enough. After an impressive five-year string of earnings gains, the third largest commercial bank in the U.S. was confronting the biggest single loss in its history. Still unable to explain fully how the bank's bond trading department had stumbled into its costly involvement with the little-known Drysdale in the first place, Chase had no choice but to swallow hard and announce a onetime write-off of perhaps $135 million after taxes, or more than what the bank had expected to earn in the second quarter. Another...