In both cases, the political impact faded quickly.
It was not Dikembe Mutombo (16 points, 1 block), whose impact faded once Oakley and Terry Cummings started taking him on the perimeter by hitting their jumpers.
As president, Bill Clinton tried to infuse the party with pro-business, pro-personal responsibility and antideficit stances, but his impact faded during the Bush years, leaving some centrists still in search of a new philosophical approach that combines the legacy of the past with policies for a future being reshaped by technological and economic forces.
Marco di Vaio showed his scoring class throughout the year, and will be back to torment defensive lines and offside adjudicators next season, but the Impact faded badly in the second half of the season and despite scraping into the playoffs they ended the season in a chaos of red cards, as they were comfortably dispatched by a Houston team on their usual post-season run into form.
Cold weather likely held back hiring in December, economists said, but the impact faded in January.
Although important exceptions exist, these programmes, like ERA, produced early positive impacts on employment and earnings but saw their impacts fade over time after the work incentives had ended (Michalopoulos, 2005).
While the impacts faded somewhat late in year 3, they re-emerged in year 4. Though the employment impacts are not statistically significant in the last couple of months of year 5, the balance of evidence still strongly suggests that ERA had a long-run impact on employment for the ND25+ group.
(The impact subsequently fades, presumably because congestion returns).
If funders and grantees are not reconciling their needs, then the promise of the data-driven impact sector fades into a missed opportunity.
