Word: impaction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Literature, the reaction across the globe might be summarized as Que Cela, Cela? Was the award to Spanish author Camilo Jose Cela, 73, another example of the Academy's penchant for giving unheard-of writers undreamt-of recognition? Yes, in the sense that Cela has not had much impact outside his native land for a quarter-century. But on reflection, the better answer is no, for Cela, though now little read, has amassed a body of powerful, disturbing work -- and lived a risky, iconoclastic life -- that fully merits the world's attention...
...make our impact by pumping out large quantities of people," said Jerome T. Murphy, associate dean at the Ed School. "We make it by training high quality people who can make an impact, and by setting up a precedent program which other schools can emulate...
...same time, there were critics and photographers asking whether the power of pictures dwindled as their numbers rose -- whether, as the practice of concerned photography wore on, its impact wore off, so that only the most sensational images registered on the brain. Now that every kind of grief has been presented to the camera from every angle, pictures of misery remind us of other pictures of misery. Then, unexpectedly, comes a scene of one man blocking a line of tanks in Beijing, and once again a photograph sends shivers down the spine...
After many such debacles, AID has started assessing the environmental impact of its funding. Other Executive Branch agencies, such as the Treasury Department, which oversees U.S. contributions to international lending institutions like the World Bank, should follow suit...
...theories." Haavelmo's key contribution was to show that the relationship between such factors as income and spending was far more complex than had been thought, since those factors affect one another and the rest of the economy. For example, he demonstrated that an economist could not gauge the impact of a change in tax rates on consumer spending without using sophisticated statistical methods...