Word: impacted
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...Least Impact. Doubleday & Co. paid Kennedy a handsome $150,000 advance-making this the first of his four books not to be published by Harper & Row, which roused his ire during last year's acrid controversy over William Manchester's The Death of a President. Despite the fact that Look magazine also clashed with Bobby over its serialization of the Manchester book, Bobby accepted an additional $10,000 or so from the magazine for his new book's chapter on Viet...
...Aides Adam Walinsky and Peter Edelman, the mere fact that it bears Bobby Kennedy's name is bound to sell copies during the coming year. According to Bobby's aides, the book's release was actually timed to achieve the least-not the greatest-political impact. Had Bobby really wanted to stir up controversy, they say, he would have sprung it on the eve of next summer's nominating conventions...
...conclusions are Thompson states that "there were four shots from three guns in six seconds." What led him to this belief was a close examination of the film of the assassination. As he saw it, a split second after President Kennedy's head lurched forward under the impact of a bullet, it lurched back again. Thompson speculates that another bullet must have struck him from the front. Much of the debris from the wound, moreover, landed to the rear of the car, again an indication to Thompson of an oncoming bullet. After talking to various eyewitnesses, Thompson decided that...
About one-fifth of the Law School, 325 students, signed the Phillips Brooks Committee petition. The signers said they were willing to reschedule the classes in question if the Faculty felt that "the two less days of classes . . . have a measurable impact on the quality of lawyers produced by the Harvard Law School...
...violent earthquakes in history. Now, after three years of soundings and surveys, scientists of the Environmental Sciences Services Administration have compiled dramatic evidence to illustrate just how powerful the Alaska quake really was. In a detailed study, they report that it lowered mountains, raised sea beds, and made an impact halfway around the world...