Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than a sixth of its length, KLM 4805 (the Rhine River) smashed into Pan American 1736 (the Clipper Victor), taxiing toward the same takeoff point. Roaring at full power, the KLM's hot engines (2000° F.) and massive landing gear crunched through the Pan Am's fuselage with such impact and explosive fire that aluminum and steel parts of both planes were vaporized. The KLM's giant engine airlets sucked fragments of the Pan Am jet into its innards before crumpling into a molten mass 1,500 ft. past the point of impact...
...Under the present system, there are two different prices for domestic oil, both substantially below the price of imported oil (now selling at about $12.50 per bbl. at Middle East ports). Full decontrol would send domestic oil prices up a third, and the Administration fears the political and inflationary impact. The probable compromise: a gradual relaxation of price controls with a ceiling, or "cap," on the maximum price...
Betty Krier '78-3 said that the paper might lessen its impact by limiting its audience...
...rejection of aid by the angry juntas will probably not have a catastrophic impact on U.S. interests in these countries; economic ties, after all, remain close. Still, a Washington-based expert on Latin America advises that "our relations with them are going to be bad for a long time. The life of a lot of American diplomats is going to be pretty miserable." The U.S., though, may find it sorely misses the backing it has received from Brazil in international organizations and the kind of invaluable, quiet diplomatic services the Brazilians have performed. Among other things, Brazil functioned discreetly...
...with refreshing candor. By law, he notes, the commission can consider only whether domestic industries are in fact being hurt by foreign competition and what sort of restrictions on imports would be sufficient to repair the damage. "If the ITC had to take into account the impact on consumers or on foreign relations, it would have recommended differently." The President, of course, must weigh those issues and, as he and his advisers do so, they are finding compelling reasons not to increase tariffs sharply...