Word: impacted
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Terrill has written numerous articles for newspapers and magazines, appeared on television during former President Nixon's visit to China in 1972, and has written two books--"800,000,000: The Real China" and "Flowers on an Iron Tree"--that, although praised by scholars, have made an impact on general readers as well...
...emotional experience, for the concepts of forgiveness and love have extensive impact that people who have been born again feel reach cords in the human psyche that few experiences in life can touch. A change in lifestyle can occur because of the very strength of the truth one has apprehended and applied to his life...
There was something almost silly about all this jostling for an edge, for the most trivial advantage that might make the debaters look or behave better. Except that the stakes were so large, the impact of the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates still so sharply felt in every politician's gizzard. This first debate would surely be the most critical event of the 1976 campaign, and both candidates knew...
...rose a trifle faster than the national average, though they are still at a lower level than in the North. The switch from agriculture to industry has also made the region more sensitive to the twists and turns of the national economy. The recent recession, which had a devastating impact on two of the region's main industries, textiles and construction, caused more suffering in the South than elsewhere. During 1975 total employment in the South fell 2.1%, v. .9% for the country...
...none of this compares in sheer impact and shock power with the South's mass export of human beings. Beginning earlier and accelerating during World War II, for more than two decades they moved north and west by the millions, black and white. The blacks constituted the vast majority, the greatest ethnic migration in American history. And they were Southern, too, perhaps the most quintessentially Southern of all. The North was confronted by a Southern invasion vaster by far than any General Lee ever mounted...