Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lightweight bulletproof vest and seat protector is being issued to U.S. helicopter pilots. Made of a classified combination of synthetic fibers and metal, weighing half as much as steel, the vest can absorb the full impact of a rifle or pistol bullet, shredding the bullet as it pierces the outer layer of the plating...
...Your truly perceptive Essay "The New American Jew" omits one important aspect, namely that the American Jew is much more at home in the American than in the Jewish culture. Inadequate Jewish education that rarely reaches the high school level and the impact of Hollywood and other mass media are denuding the American Jew of his Jewish qualities...
...Frenchmen consider him French anyway (he has a second studio in Saché). But last week more than 13 tons of the New World descended upon Paris in the largest exhibition of American sculpture ever shown in Europe. The site, of all places, was the Rodin Museum, and the impact nothing short of formidable...
...institutional impact is destined to become stronger in the market. Mutual-fund assets have grown by an average 14% annually in recent years, and more and more labor settlements call for increased pension benefits. This tide of new money can have a major effect on the market, often helping to stabilize stock prices. Says Robert Driscoll, president of the Manhattan-based Affiliated Fund: "When the market goes up, we sell-and when the market goes down we buy." As the past few weeks have illustrated, the institutions' very size can make them an unsettling force, even when they...
...their assets now bulge above $600 billion, nearly as much as the U.S.'s gross national product; they currently account for close to one-third of the $60 billion-a-year trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Clearly their decisions to buy or sell have a powerful impact on which way the market goes. Lately these large investors have been holding back their money from the market, thus helping to grease the market's fall...