Word: impacted
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...cool, shrewd and resourceful lawyer. After 1½ years in private practice in Washington, D.C., Volner, 33, has accepted a post as General Counsel of the Army, in charge of thousands of Army lawyers around the world. "It's a rare challenge. It's having an impact on things that matter," said Jill. She may also have her foot in the right door. Her predecessors in the job: Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Secretary of HEW Joseph Califano and Strategic Arms Negotiator Nominee Paul Warnke...
Dumping Herds. Farther north, in Oregon, Idaho and Washington, the drought's full impact is not expected until summertime, when the current lack of snowpack in the mountains is almost certain to lead to a water crisis. The usual snowpack for this season at the 6,000-foot level on Mount Hood is 143 inches; after a heavy snow last week it had risen to only 21 inches. It is the snowpack that replenishes streams, reservoirs and irrigation ditches, and with only a modest runoff in sight, Oregon officials expect as much as a $2 billion economic loss...
...Brooklyn, Federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein voided the Government's sale last August of 93 oil-drilling leases on the Atlantic shelf to private companies for $1.1 billion. In response to a suit by local politicians and conservationists, Weinstein ruled that the statements on environmental impact issued by former Secretary of Interior Thomas Kleppe were a "charade." According to the judge, the statements failed to discuss adequately such considerations as whether tankers or pipelines would be used to bring oil ashore or where onshore storage depots and processing plants would be located...
...firms holding the leases expressed dismay. Shell Oil charged that the delay "further jeopardizes the economic security of the nation." What happens next is unclear. The Interior Department can either appeal the ruling, possibly rewrite the impact statement, or call the deal off and return the money to the companies. Whatever it does, last week's decision is certain to delay production in the Atlantic for at least several years...
...writings. The Jesuit-run Pontifical Gregorian University reports with pride that Teilhard leads its compilation of the most-read Catholic thinkers over the past ten years. Even so, says French Theologian Yves Congar, "it is certain that his influence is diminishing." American Jesuit Avery Dulles thinks Teilhard's impact persists, though mainly through writers who were influenced...