Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson Administration last week fired the opening salvo of its war on poverty-but it had all the impact of a popgun. In a news conference in Austin, Poverty Boss R. Sargent Shriver announced that of the $784.2 million appropriated last October to fight the war, $35 million was being ticketed for 120 projects in 32 states. Among them: $15 million to build or renovate 41 Job Corps sites, and $12 million for community-action programs ranging from English lessons for Papago Indian children in Arizona to retirement communities in southwestern Louisiana...
...duty to do a great deal more than make money for its 240,000 stockholders. As he sees it, the firm that his family founded needs to set the pace for others in opening new frontiers of knowledge. "It's fascinating," he says, "to speculate on the impact the things you make have on society...
Subtly or dramatically, Du Pont has made a considerable impact on the nation's language and life. Besides nylon, Dacron and cellophane, the firm has contributed a whole lexicon of names, many of which sound like something right out of science fiction. While a man dons his suit of orlon and his socks of Spandex in the morning, his wife may be wriggling into a Lycra girdle, an Antron slip, Cantrece hose-or the Warner "body stocking," a new fashion rage made of Du Font's stretch nylon...
Since much of the laughter excited by Pussycat is cruel, put-down humor, the why of its comic impact is almost more interesting than the how of it. Nobody much believes in love any more; Broadway has not seen an old-fashioned nonmusical love story in years. This is intimately linked to the image of the modern woman, who does not seem real, at least onstage, unless she can spar, jaw-to-jaw and eyeball-to-eyeball, with her man. As Ibsen would have been the first to recognize, Nora competes at home nowadays, and the doll's house...
...were only temporary, to be lifted when and if Britain's balance-of-payment problems are eased. All told, it was a fairly effective act of ledger-demain; the gas-tax increase was passed by a ten-vote margin, the income tax by 26. The budget's impact is decidedly deflationary, since it will take nearly $600 million in purchasing power out of the economy. Some experts believe that this is just what is needed right...