Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impact of petitions is hard to measure. No doubt they dramatized-and perhaps exaggerated-the intellectual community's discontent with U.S. Viet Nam war policy. By now, however, petitioning ads have become seriously overworked. Donald Keys, SANE's executive director, says: "Now it's not enough to run full-page ads in the New York Times. You have to run double-page spreads." In fact, petitions are apt to be most successful on local issues. Nationally, a notable failure involved the school prayer amendment, which again died in Congress, even though Sponsor Everett Dirksen could point...
However the story is handled, its impact is predictable. Together, the Cronkite and Huntley-Brinkley reports are watched by an estimated aggregate of 30 million people, and it is claimed that 70% of that audience is made up of adults. One particularly popular news special, such as Pope Paul's visit to the U.S. last year, can easily focus the attention of 150 million viewers. Even at the dullest point of the Fulbright hearings on Viet Nam, several million people were tuned...
Psychological Impact...
...study is also concerned with the psychological Impact of grades on undergraduates, Whitla said, and the effectiveness of grades as a sorting mechanism for graduate schools...
...been encouraging scientific and engineering firms to move into the area. But these goals, though disrupted by an eight-lane highway, are still not entirely thwarted. An M.I.T. that encourages a well-designed depressed highway through the City could do a great deal to ease the Inner Belt's impact on Cambridge, and minimize the damage to the Institute's own plans as well...