Word: impacting
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...Rita R. Rogers, chairman of the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) Task Force on the Psychosocial Impact of Nuclear Advances, agrees. The task force's survey research found that the most common response to questions about nuclear war was "nothing." We have "no emotional platform on which to place these issues." Rogers argues. "The issues are too big for our participation...
...problem with this and all other arguments for deterrence is its assumption that nuclear missiles do no harm as long as they stay in their silos. But as recent studies of the arms race's psychological impact suggest, the very existence of nuclear weapons and the prospects of their use inflicts damage--with untold implications for the future--on the minds and spirits of children. Moreover, the public's emotional respones to the incessant spiral or arms--denial and desensitization--greatly diminish a democratic society's ability to implement "rational alternatives." We are, says Dr. Chorover, "learning helplessness...
...impact of the Citibank divestiture was evident in the fact that other institutions followed Harvard's lead and divested 57 million from the bank in 1981 as a protest against the consortium loan. The divestiture program has been effective in spotlighting the singularly oppressive nature of the South African regime and the key role played by American business in making apartheid economically viable. A decision by Harvard to weaken its ethical investment policy would be a signal t the South African government, and to transnational banks, that gilding a simple business loan to the South African government with humanitarian verbiage...
...Frith suffers from the essential difficulty of rock criticism: balancing passion for the music against taking it too seriously. the promotion and rise of the besides was certainly prime fodder for a sociologist eager to understand the 60's. Frith is quite right in saying"... the world-wide impact of the Beatles can now be seen to have been an extraordinary and unrepeatable business event." But the Beatles would never have been bigger than Jesus if they had not made people dance--and that had nothing to do with the politics or sociology of rock and roll...
Schools were also asked to prepare and send "statements of impact" of the proposed cuts to congressmen via lobbyists