Word: impacting
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...other business, the council heard from Councillor Kathleen L. Born, chair of the housing and community development committee, on MIT's Housing Impact Statement...
Speakers working for public-interest organizations ranging from AmeriCorps to the National Council for International Health said there are a number of stable, well-paying jobs available that "make a powerful, positive impact on communities...
While Milosevic moved fast to stay ahead of the impact of the air strikes, NATO was plagued by bad luck. Only about half the bombing sorties actually dropped ordnance on targets. Some planes were socked in by bad weather; other pilots couldn't eyeball their prey--NATO rules required visual identification of a target to prevent civilian casualties--through the thick cloud cover, and returned to base with bomb bays still loaded. "Everybody is surprised," says a White House aide, "that we're not as far along as we wanted...
Though eschewing the more aggressive and often violent tactics of '60s campus radicals, these '90s-style protesters have made an impact. Michigan and Wisconsin, among other schools, have vowed to push licensing companies to disclose locations of textile factories and then guarantee certain wages and conditions for workers. "They have forced the universities to move on this issue," says Congressman George Miller, a California Democrat on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, who sent the students a letter of support signed by 23 of his colleagues...
ADOLF HITLER It would be awful to see his face on TIME's last cover of the millennium, but I must conclude, with the greatest sadness and reluctance, that the person who had the most profound impact on the events of the 20th century was also the century's most evil person: Adolf Hitler. The century was filled with inspirational leaders who advanced its most powerful idea, freedom of the individual--people like the two Roosevelts, Churchill, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. But the poison unleashed by Hitler and his terrible contemporary Joseph Stalin survives. Not only must...