Word: impactful
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...supreme court. Then the two untainted justices will also have to step aside, leaving it to five non-supreme court judges to rule on the case. "Obviously," says former Governor Philip Hoff, noting that Vermonters are generally suspicious of the legal profession, "this has a negative impact upon the public's views...
...most sweeping attempt to regulate a personal practice since Prohibition, countless new laws tell Americans where they can and cannot light up. -- A taciturn central figure in Iranscam feels the pressure and attempts suicide. -- As the baby boomers mature, the baby- bust generation is poised to make an impact of its own. -- A drug- interdiction program sputters in a slow start...
Meanwhile, in Congress, Secretary of State George Shultz offered no response when Representative Robert Torricelli (D.-New Jersey) told him during a hearing the U.S.-provided weapons were having a "dramatic" impact in Iran's favor in its war with Iraq...
Kris Kobach '88, president of the Republican Club, said he hopes the new organization will "find ways to have a real impact on freedom of speech for all points of view." He said that conservative speakers such as Casper W. Weinberger '38, had been harassed by students when lecturing at Harvard...
...generational saga pays generous tribute to the near silent partners in Irish-American history's most important , merger. She offers little that is new and no shocks. If anything, Goodwin, author of Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream and the wife of former Kennedy Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, softens the impact of the familiar political and sexual scandals that litter the path from the old sod to the Oval Office. Her approach is to balance the requirements of scholarship (Goodwin was a professor of government at Harvard) with the demands of the literary marketplace...