Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...broke the filibuster, the rest of the week's actions in the Senate seemed anticlimactic. But they were far from that. For one thing, Byrd and Baker quickly appointed informal committees to propose changes in Rule 22, now shot through with procedural holes. The outcome could have considerable impact on the Senate's jealously guarded tradition of unlimited speech. Then there was the energy bill itself. The day after the filibuster was killed, so was Carter's proposal for keeping price controls on natural gas. While deregulation is all but certain to die in the House-Senate...
...upwardly mobile Harvard students, are addicted to these sort of one-man vigilante, "take the law into your own hands" movies. Facile sociological comments about what Clint Eastwood's popularity tells us about Americans' repressed frustrations aside, a violence-glorifying film like Dirty Harry is incredibly dangerous. Its potential impact was dramatized just a month ago when after seeing the movie on television, two young brothers in Cleveland re-enacted a gunfight scene from the film and one accidentally shot the other dead. None of which will, or perhaps should, keep you from going; just save your unleashed hostility...
...quota system because it is still early enough in the affirmative action game so that individual admissions committees deserve some elbow room in working out their own programs. At the more emotional level, a number of black politicians and spokesmen for civil rights groups have stressed the crucial symbolic impact of the ruling, predicting that, subtleties aside, ruling against U.C. Davis would be seen as a ruling against affirmative action, and that it could mark the first victory in a campaign to turn back the tide of affirmative action and the progress of civil rights programs and legislation by those...
...system. Otherwise, that tax load could become intolerable. At present there are 30 Social Security beneficiaries for every 100 workers; early in the next century it is expected that there will be 52 recipients for every 100 workers. But Social Security officials caution against expecting more than a "minor" impact on the system from having the old work longer...
Vellucci said he received some "worried complaints from area businessmen" who are concerned about the impact of the new line on Harvard Square's economy...