Word: impacted
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...Brave. As the holiday passed and the first full impact of the strike hit the city, Lindsay went on television again and again to urge "nonessential people" to stay at home. "Every man when he looks at himself in the mirror when he's shaving in the morning likes to think of himself as essential," said the mayor. "But remember, there are degrees of essentiality." He gave daily bulletins about the strike and tried to encourage his constituents. "We must sweat it out," he said. "So I ask you to be very tough about it and very brave about...
Much more than the "verbatim" document it was first announced as, In Cold Blood is a new kind of saga, and a unique landmark in American historiography. Its impact and brilliance, the result of a six-year quest after every person and detail involved in the murder, mark the demise of Capote, the literary mannerist. He has abandoned the mellifluous language honed for his previous work, and discovered a new diction--based on listening to a staggering amount of mental transcription taken from the entire cast of a protracted drama--to handle the lives, minds, and language of those directly...
...that the canals are faults or fractures, several miles wide, in the Martian crust. Their darkening and fading may be caused, he says, by the intermittent escape of hot gases that melt a thin layer of frost and vegetation. The oases where the faults intersect, he speculates, are probably impact craters where moisture gathers and promotes the growth of moss or lichenlike plants hardy enough to withstand the harsh Martian climate...
...This is certainly no time for unwarranted price increases which can lead to inflation. It is time to consider the larger national interest, to weigh the impact of unnecessary price actions against the sacrifices of our men in Viet Nam, and to act accordingly...
...maximum interest that banks may pay on time deposits of 30 days or more. Some of the combatants seem distinctly unhappy-but the battle is on. Like the reward for saving, the cost of borrowing has shot aloft in response to the Reserve Board's action. The impact has fallen chiefly on businessmen; by last week almost every commercial bank in the U.S. had lifted its minimum rate on commercial loans ½%-to 5% or more. Interest rates on home mortgages jumped by at least 0.1% in many areas; in Chicago the typical rate climbed from...