Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been waiting for three years in Chicago. There a sergeant's exam, taken in 1985 by 6,000 officers, is under review by a federal judge after discrimination charges by minority candidates. The court has scolded the department for testing in a way that "had a substantial adverse impact on blacks, Hispanics and women." In New York minority candidates who failed in 1983 brought suit, and 200 won higher rank. Little Rock and San Francisco have faced similar challenges...
...officials say that research, rather than teaching, will be the greatest area of impact at the Taubman Center. Several existing research programs will be incorporated into the new center, including the Ford Foundation Innovations program, which gives grants for outstanding state and local programs, and the Joint Center for Housing Studies...
...herbicide on the Andes' delicate ecosystem could turn it into a desert. Just after Lilly's announcement, Walter Gentner, a recently retired research scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, complained that he had been pressured by the State Department to condone use of Spike in Peru before its impact had been assessed...
...rushing out of the stock market in a sell-off. The sheer quantity of statistics available is immense. Nearly every business day the U.S. Government releases one indicator or another, from the Consumer Price Index and capacity utilization to retail sales and housing starts. Too often, however, the overall impact of the numbers is to generate confusion and anxiety. Some of the statistics are subject to repeated revisions. Other gauges fluctuate so wildly from month to month that they seem almost useless. More and more, the art of economic planning appears to be degenerating from astral navigation to something closer...
Maniatis says the company "has a direct impact on the city...