Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experience of Williams arid others suggests that the majority of veterans return to civilian life at roughly the status they left it. Despite the tremendous impact of the war on national life, the country as a whole has managed to maintain a peacetime psychology. Prosperity, rather than his military service, assures the typical veteran of a job. Most of those who end up in college or vocational training programs would probably have had the same opportunity without Viet Nam. It has been a nasty, inglorious war that most Americans did not understand and would prefer to forget. Of necessity, some...
...language of the majority opinion leaves open the possibility that a Supreme Court composed of members with different views may some day dilute the impact of the O'Callahan decision by defining broadly the kinds of offenses that are in some way service-connected. Nevertheless, the opinion establishes a strong precedent for wider federal court review of military tribunals in the future. That sentiment was best summarized by one sentence in last week's decision: "History teaches that expansion of military discipline beyond its proper domain carries with it a threat to liberty...
Others are more concerned. Although he agrees that organisms might survive a moon fragment's entry into the earth's atmosphere, Cornell Exobiologist Carl Sagan is less confident that they could live through the heat generated by a meteor impact on the moon. For that reason he has doubts that lunar organisms have ever reached the earth and that terrestrial life has already proved its immunity. Sagan, like most other scientists, believes that the odds are high against life existing on the moon. But he cautions that there is "an exceedingly small risk of possibly great harm...
...COMMISSION FIGHT. This is the issue with the greatest impact on investors' wallets, and one that the exchange must resolve in the next year or so to appease Government regulators. Under intense pressure from the SEC, it enacted a 7% volume discount on big block trades last year, but the cut was too small to please anyone. The Justice Department advocates scrapping the brokers' jealously guarded system of fixed minimum commission rates -which now range from $6 to $75 for every 100 shares traded, depending on price-and letting every broker charge whatever he can persuade customers...
Like Norman Mailer, who dreams of turning New York City into a citystate with himself as philosopher-king, Mrs. Jacobs deals with each city as an isolated economic entity, with its own exports and imports. She ignores the economic interdependence of today's world and the enormous, unavoidable impact of government not merely upon the whole economy but-through tax and credit policies, commerce regulations and contracts-upon the very obscure and nascent businesses she most prizes. It is as if Mrs. Jacobs postulated that the vitality and effectiveness of a washerwoman's work can be judged...