Word: impactful
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...miles, a 43% increase. There are plenty of seats, in other words, to go around. Says Julius Maldutis, an airline analyst for Salomon Brothers investment firm: "The airlines are locked into a low-fare environment from which there is no return." No matter what happens to People Express, its impact on air travel will not be easily undone...
...impact of his death was apparently not lost on America's 5 million or so regular cocaine users. Even as Bias was being eulogized in services at the university chapel and applauded by 11,000 people who gathered to honor him at the Cole Field House, where he had performed so spectacularly on the court, cocaine hot lines around the country were clogged by anxious callers. Their questions were echoed across the U.S.: Could the nation's "recreational drug" of choice really be lethal, even on first use? How could a taste of cocaine kill a world-class athlete...
...newsrooms. "It's the high cost of litigation that has been stifling investigative reporting," said Anderson. "I think this decision will reverse all of that." Some First Amendment experts were afraid that the court had not given explicit enough criteria to lower courts, but the decision may have an impact beyond the strict letter of its language. "In some cases the melody is more important than the words," said Libel Attorney Bruce Sanford of Washington. Whether lower-court judges will face the music remains to be seen...
...such measures would be as ineffectual as those taken in the 1960s and '70s against the white rebel government in Rhodesia. She believes that they would hurt black South Africans, not to mention the independent black states to the north (see box), long before they would have any real impact on apartheid. Thatcher is also obviously concerned about Britain's estimated $8 billion direct investment in South Africa, the largest of any nation, and the possible loss of 120,000 British jobs at home if total economic sanctions were adopted...
Peter Dickinson is that rare novelist who is equally at home with the inward stare of psychological fiction and the outward thrust of political commentary. That duality is reflected in two themes that reverberate through most of his books: the impact of a family's guilty past and the doomed meeting of the industrialized and the underdeveloped worlds. Both themes merge, stunningly, in Tefuga, the story of a British journalist's trip to Africa to make a docudrama about his parents--a diplomat and his young artist wife whose well-meant meddling provoked a long-ago international incident. The journalist...