Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those policies hit Harvard especially hard, Meyer said. Since the Harvard endowment is so large, the small amounts the school was able to invest in venture capital funds had much less impact on Harvard's total holdings...
...think its going to have very little impact, but it will makes people's lives simpler," Lewis said. "It puts the burden of the restrictions on the early decision colleges. I think it's the right thing...
Arkin also pointed out that the number of cluster bombs used in Yugoslavia was a mere fraction of the number sprayed over Iraq, and that this is already a recognition of "the adverse humanitarian impact" of these bombs...
...weapon is of course not perfect: "It's not a precision munition," the Air Force spokesperson added. "There are 5 percent [of the bomblets] that will not explode on impact They just sit there. You don't want to pick it up or go play there because you don't know what caused them...
...Kathie Lee makes good on that threat by tearing up her contract with yet another sweatshop, will her actions have an impact in the grand scheme of workers? rights? Eventually, says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "There?s an inexorable trend toward better working conditions in factories abroad. It?s part and parcel of the globalization process." These days, Baumohl explains, when a U.S.-based company sends manufacturing contracts abroad, it is expected, and sometimes required, to pay a reasonable wage for services rendered. In countries highly dependent on foreign contracts, an increase in manufacturing-job salaries means...