Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...departments in which TIME sorts out each week's news remain fairly constant, but when the need arises, we create a new one. In 1973, when the Arabs put an embargo on oil, TIME added a section called Energy, which monitored the fuel shortage, assessed its impact on the economy and explored long-range solutions. When it seemed that the nation was beginning to develop a policy to cope with the problem, the section was phased out, although our readers were kept abreast of every development in other departments, including Nation, Economy & Business and Environment. This week...
Condor is having some impact: drugs are scarcer on U.S. streets, but how long-lasting that will be is still difficult to determine. U.S. narcotics agents are impressed by the aggressive Mexican efforts, but they have also learned in Nepal, Turkey and Southeast Asia that peasants who have finally found a lucrative cash crop can be wily and aggressive. In Mexico the destruction of planted fields and the arrests of several overlords, including Jorge Favela-a local godfather who has been sought in half a dozen other countries for drug trading-have led to fierce internecine battles for control...
...that a thaw is in sight, economists can begin to measure the impact of the unforeseen cold on the economic recovery. The verdict of TIME'S Board of Economists: a sharp, but strictly temporary, setback...
Most archeologists, in fact, admit the possibility that ancient voyagers did come to America before the Vikings; some even say it is quite possible. But all agree that it is extremely unlikely that they came in the numbers and varieties, or had the impact, that Fell asserts...
...trend toward divided family units that isolate the aged, he says. "Just look at the scores of thousands of housing tracts in this country, where only parents and children live. Think of the impact on these children who will grow up without close proximity to grandparents. There are certain things that a grandmammy or a granddaddy can do for a child that no one else can. It's sort of like Stardust?the relationship between grandparents and children. The lack of this for many children has to have a negative impact on society. The edges of these children...