Word: impacted
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...argue that the policy nonetheless represents a major change of direction by Washington in its treatment of urban problems. Says Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Patricia Harris: "Probably the most important policy change is that all programs and activities of the Federal Government will be examined for their impact on urban areas. That's not sexy. That's not jazzy. But it is very important...
...flags were indeed lowered, but the A.C.L.U. pursued the issue to Washington, where the Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 that Thomson should cease and desist. Up went the flags. Thomson then issued a "nonreligious" decree asking that the flags be lowered because of the '"historical impact on Western civilization of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ." He sent his lawyers back to Judge Skinner to see if that would be legal, but before Judge Skinner could rule, the sun set on Thomson's maneuverings...
...LEGISLATION. Increases in the minimum wage and Social Security taxes were known to be costly, but the impact was not appreciated until January. Those raises alone could add a full point to the inflation rate for the year. Prices at fast-food restaurants will go up because they employ many workers at the minimum wage. Says a high official of the Government's Council on Wage and Price Stability (COWPS): "This year will destroy once and for all the argument that the minimum wage is not inflationary...
...Government may yield. Carter has refused to support a congressional move to roll back huge increases in Social Security taxes scheduled to start next year. And the President so far has tended to view regulatory decisions in an isolated, case-by-case way, rather than weighing their inflationary impact. Further, he seems to have no stomach for Lyndon Johnson-style jawboning of labor and business. The inflationary genie may be out of the bottle...
There are many other rich stories that American Hot Wax shortchanges. Though the movie indicates that rock brought kids of all races and classes together, it never makes dramatic capital out of this crucial aspect of the music's social impact. Freed's susceptibility to payola, which ultimately proved his undoing, is mentioned only in passing and is then blithely excused. Kaye chooses to dwell instead on a tired subplot about a starry-eyed teen-age songwriter (Laraine Newman, of NBC's Saturday Night Live) who feuds with her disapproving folks...