Word: effect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect of the terrorism in Italy, says Bonfante, is that fear has paralyzed the instinct of Italians to excel in something and thereby catch the public eye. Anything they might do that attracted publicity could also attract a terrorist...
Carter will now seek a tax reduction of roughly the $19.4 billion that Democratic congressional leaders have been telling him the House and Senate will pass. Further, he wants the cut to take effect on Jan. 1, 1979, three months later than he originally proposed. As a result, according to the Administration's calculations last week, the projected 1979 deficit will be slashed by about $10 billion, to a total of $53 billion, and inflationary pressures will be considerably reduced. In turn, said Schultze, there will be less pressure on the Federal Reserve Board to clamp down on inflation...
...sincere enough to make the rest of us a little uneasy, suggested we burn our I.D.s instead. She looked like a ladybug, the puckish girl sitting on Pater Noster's polished knee, spotted with buttons and stickers from past years. "Some of you younger kids don't know what effect that kind of statement can have. Very heavy." Too heavy, we all agreed...
...Palestinian Arabs have an understandable vendetta against the Israelis, but they also have a grievance against all the rest of us. Half a century of massive indifference to their wrongs has had the same exasperating effect on them as a century of similar treatment has had on the black citizens of the United States...
...epidemic of kidnapings and other violence directed against Italy's rich has had its effect. Since the beginning of last year, there have been 90 kidnapings, with ransoms of $1 million or more being paid on at least two occasions. The flamboyance of the moneyed life-style has all but disappeared. So have a good many of the rich. Said U.S.-born Countess Consuelo Crespi before moving to New York City in 1976: "In Italy now you want to feel rich and look poor." Sales of Rolls-Royces have fallen off to nearly half their level of a year...