Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...farm states may not have a great impact on the presidential race, however, because the eight states with farming populations of more than 5 percent control only 66 of the nation's 538 electoral votes...
...illegal immigrants, forbids municipal employees from cooperating with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in the deportation of illegal aliens. And while community activists as well as city and federal officials still dispute the efficacy of such a stand, most agree that the resolution has had less of an impact than the nationwide publicity originally indicated...
Most of those who sympathize with the sanctuary movement describe the impact of the city's resolution on the plight of refugees as minimal, but say that the publicity has generated more concern about immigration issues...
...across the nation, city resolutions granting sanctuary to Central American refugees have had little impact on the government's ability to seek out and expel foreigners living here illegally. Among the cities which have declared themselves refugee sanctuaries are Ithaca N.Y., Berkeley, Calif., and St. Paul, Minn. While the city of Los Angeles rescinded its sanctuary status last month, the governor of New Mexico two weeks ago declared the state a haven for illegal aliens. Brookline is the only other Massachusetts community which has declared itself a sanctuary...
...nylon raincoat, colored like a beachball, done up with sailing-line pullies and decorated with squirmy rubber fishing lures; a black rubber dress with a zip from back to hem by Mariann Marlowe; and an all-vinyl snakeskin suit by Animal-X. Some of the clothes go for immediate impact over staying power. But there are a fair number of designers, like Morton and Goodman, who are imaginative enough to be in no immediate danger of a burnout, and there are others, as well, who show signs of staying the course. Three examples...