Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...father, who died in 1969: "He was the most famous athlete of his day and a very glamorous figure in aviation." Several years ago Vidal entered a movie theater "to see some old March of Time newsreels. And there, suddenly, was my father. It made an extraordinary impact on me. He must have been about 35, and there I was, older than that, watching him. It was very strange. I was very, very fond...
...could be a "center" for negotiations. And even when asked to "be precise" about a full employment program, Carter will only say Americans have to sell more products abroad, the government must "remove incentives for corporations to move overseas," and "channel R&D into areas that would have greater impact on our jobs." There are no hows or whys behind anything he says. Just teeth--Cheshire cat teeth with an elusive image behind...
...Cuban troops are serving the Marxist government in Luanda. The Cubans have been responsible for most of the M.P.L.A. victories, but at some cost. There are estimates that 300 have been killed and 1,400 wounded; at least 100 have been taken prisoner. Such losses may have an impact at home, where only within the past month have Cubans been formally told by Premier Fidel Castro what their men have been doing for nearly a year...
Representing a nation of fewer than 17 million citizens, the East German team placed second to the Russians in total medals. The only sport in which they had no impact was alpine skiing. "Contrary to what one sometimes reads in the West," explained one East German official, "we don't shoot our athletes at dawn if they fail to win. Socialism is identical with competition." What he meant was that in East Germany, sport is a political device to gain prestige abroad and keep up national morale. Highly organized programs identify promising athletes at an early age. And East...
...other papers also find that feminism and profanity create stylistic headaches, but few have adopted ironclad rules to relieve them. The Chicago Tribune- uses Ms. if a woman requests it, as does the Louisville Courier-Journal. The Minneapolis Tribune quotes profanity if it is essential for either "meaning and impact" or an accurate description of a speaker's outlook. Los Angeles Times Editorial Page Director Anthony Day crusades against the repeated misuse of certain words (verbally for orally or vice versa, hopefully for one hopes) but goes along with some neologisms. "Part of what keeps a language alive...