Word: impactful
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...fanfare, however, Carter will probably have only a limited impact on the election. In many areas, where local pocketbook issues predominate, his name is rarely even mentioned in campaigns. Democratic candidates seek his help in raising money and getting out the vote, but they do not expect much beyond that. "Kansans have a respect for the presidency," says Bill Roy, who must contend with farmers angry over Carter's agriculture policies. "I'm not sure his visit will change a single vote, because Kansans are very independent when it comes to voting. They don't vote...
...future when the players would be remembering this game. You are going to wish you were back here, he told them, and you had a chance to put it all on the line in an afternoon-to test yourself against the best. "That's the kind of emotional impact football will have on your life," said Wilkinson...
...billion reduction in individual income levies provided by the tax bill will just about offset the bite of increased Social Security taxes and the impact of inflation pushing people into higher tax brackets. But the cuts in corporate and capital gains taxes stand to improve the business climate and stimulate investment. The energy bill permits natural gas prices to rise significantly, leading to total decontrol in 1985, and meanwhile imposes the same pricing system on gas pumped and sold within a single state and fuel piped across state lines. Energy executives in Houston forecast that as a result, more...
James M. Anderson, a teaching fellow in biology said yesterday the new policy will have a mixed impact on atmospheric research, his specialty. Funds for experiments investigating the Earth's atmosphere would probably be boosted, he said, while some programs designed to study the atmospheres of other planets, particularly Venus, Mars and Jupiter, are now in "greater jeopardy...
Essentially, the bylaw, as approved January 13, 1978, splits Division I football--the so-called football elite--into two subsets--Division I-A and I-AA. The results of this restructing plan, which Bob Murphy, the Ivy League and numerous other NCAA members opposed, had, on the surface, little impact. The old Division I was composed of 144 members. Its new equivalent, Division I-A, has 139. Because they could not meet the criteria established for eligibility in Division I-A, five schools dropped into I-AA. In addition, 28 Division II schools moved up to I-AA to form...