Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continuing effort to try to shoehorn a few more people and ideas into Jimmy Carter's days, Scheduler Tim Kraft's shop photocopied the President's schedules and laid them out for study. The visual impact was stunning?ranks of names, events, ceremonies. No wonder, they muttered, the planned 55-hour week for Carter had grown to 71 hours and, if the truth about his private time were known, probably 80 or more...
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...first of our Nation stories is devoted to the President's three presentations and their impact on people as diverse as Senator Robert Byrd and Philadelphia Personnel Manager June Rosato. It is by Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, who has written 67 TIME covers. Said he after reading the extensive files from our correspondents: "All those off-the-cuff views that most people will not rise to a crisis unless they feel immediately threatened seem to be wrong. Despite arguments over his program, it is clear that Carter has a better feeling for the people than many reporters and politicians...
...development of new fields by placing a tax on any earnings that were not -with the proceeds to be devoted, perhaps, to joint federal-private exploitation of resources that are particularly difficult and expensive to tap, such as those lying under water on the outer continental shelf. The impact of rising prices on the poor could be offset by a system of federal gasoline and heating stamps, similar to food stamps. This proposal was rejected as too cumbersome...
...excise tax on big gas-gulping cars. Pechman concedes that the plan will add "moderately" to the inflation rate, but contends that somewhat higher prices are part of the cost the nation must pay to resolve its "most serious problem." The program should have little or no impact on economic growth, Pechman asserts. Harvard University's Otto Eckstein also believes the plan is workable. If enacted by Congress, he says, the package would add no more than seven-tenths of one percentage point to living costs between now and 1980. Automakers would be hurt, but not disastrously. Though sales...