Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Government courses overwhelmingly emphasize systems, abstract balances of forces and state power, ignoring the impact on the individuals affected by these larger forces. Discussions in history and government classes are often mere studies in violence, as they examine past wars or prospects for nuclear...
...shattering the silence. The result: a congressional hearing that revealed a stunning list of nuclear incidents caused by a combination of primitive instrumentation, inadequately trained personnel and a management meltdown by both DOE and E.I. du Pont de Nemours, which runs the plant for the Federal Government. The impact on the environment is not yet fully known, but thousands of gallons of radioactive material have already leaked into the groundwater. The contamination, says a 1985 Du Pont memo, may exist "centuries or millennia into the future...
...network, though hampered by a weaker station lineup, has also made an impact on network viewing, especially on Sunday nights. Fox's 21 Jump Street, a teen-oriented cop show, has grabbed a healthy share of the audience at 7 p.m., and the new crime-stopper series America's Most Wanted often beats several network shows in the weekly Nielsen list...
Such results have had an inevitable impact on the networks' bottom lines. Profits have plummeted at all but NBC. Each of the three networks has been taken over by a new corporate owner -- ABC by Capital Cities Communications, NBC by General Electric, and CBS by Loews chairman Laurence Tisch -- that has instituted severe cost-cutting measures. Some 3,500 people , from technicians to network censors, have been laid off at the Big Three in the past two years. Although some further postelection cuts are anticipated at CBS News and NBC News, the bulk of the reducing is probably over...
Professor Emeritus Raymond Vernon said the Mason program, "is nourished by the enormous skill of its two directors. They turned it into something absolutely marvelous." Vernon said that participating in the program has a "very, very substantial impact...