Word: impactful
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Tough talk like that demonstrates the ominous desperation of regimes suffering from dried-up oil dreams. Says Hormats: "The geopolitical impact of the oil-price collapse is immense and unpredictable." A Bank of America report issued last week predicts that average inflation in the Middle East will jump from 28% to 40% by 1988 and that the region's economic growth will be a slow 1% to 2% a year. Oil producers, especially those with heavy foreign debts, may pick the U.S. as a worthy target. Writing in the current issue of Foreign Affairs, Edward Morse, a former Deputy Assistant...
...least for those Americans who are not in the oil business. February's dramatic .4% fall in the Consumer Price Index, the biggest decrease since 1953, was largely the result of dropping oil prices. Says Maryann Keller, an auto analyst at Vilas- Fischer Associates: "The real impact of declining oil prices is what you're going to do with the extra money in your wallet after you've visited the gas station. Maybe you're going to go out and buy a pair of shoes. Maybe you're going to take a vacation. It's going to mean...
...gasoline and diesel fuel this year. The amount that individual farms will save, says Mike Pieschel, president of the Farmers & Merchants State Bank in Springfield, Minn., "is not by itself going to prevent any farmer from going under. But it sure as hell is going to have an impact" in reducing the cost squeeze for some growers. Salesmen of tractors and combines are less sanguine. Says Cletus Chappell, co-owner of C&W Equipment Co., of Jerseyville, Ill.: "The savings will be around $500 or so (per farm). It will help with the planting, but not in terms of helping...
...Kline could have generated some electricity between them, this issue might have been more promising. But they are grounded by a predictable script by Naomi Foner and the cliche-ridden direction of Spacek's husband Jack Fisk. The result may someday become a footnote in the history of the impact of feminism on Hollywood romance. Moviegoers looking for fun and frolic are advised to wait for the book. By Richard Schickel...
Which heaven forfend! The stylishness and power of impact of Katz's work are not in doubt. Over the years he has come up with a way of doing quite a lot with limited plastic means. His sources are largely those of Pop art: the quickly seen, iconic, coercive imagery of mass media, which he then modifies and softens with high-art references. His main subject is the human face, close up and cropped by the frame, a pearly or tanned mask of flat paint with schematic shading, great swacking eyelashes and lipstick-colored lips: it is the face...