Word: impactful
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Such reasoning, however, could be applied to just about every expenditure by a Government bureaucracy, from the State Department's outlays for American diplomats to the battalions of inspectors employed by regulatory agencies. Moreover, whatever inflationary impact the Pentagon might have, it is relatively minor compared with that of other Government programs. Today, defense outlays are only half as much as Washington spends on social welfare programs. Says Murray Weidenbaum, a member of TIME's Board of Economists...
Conway calls her narrative "the relentless witnessing of ravages lives," but the impact of the narrative is has far less impact than the description implies. Trite and ultimately tiresome, the structure of the book prevents Conway from articulating the problems within the unionization movement itself. By randomly panning workers' sentiments, Conway skirts a critical analysis of the factors in the workers' minds and society that obstruct their unionization attempts...
Thomas M. Reardon, director of development, said yesterday he was not sure what Dillon would speak about. "Twenty-five years ago he spoke here about how he views Harvard, its impact on our society, and that impact on the rest of the world, so he might pick up that theme again," he said...
...refusing to back a consumer boycott, the Council guarantees that student boycotts will have little impact. In the case of J.P. Stevens sheets used in the University Health Services' infirmary, students have no way of boycotting without University support...
Dean Johnson, president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, says the draft EIR is "very inadequate," adding that he fears "the air pollution impact is going to be very, very severe...