Word: impactful
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Arguing that new weapons rise faster in price than do consumer goods, the Pentagon for the past four years has used an inflation index about 30% higher than the Consumer Price Index. But the GAO found that after the impact of contractor cost overruns is subtracted, prices for weapons and other Defense purchases prove to have "increased at about the same rate as prices of all goods in the U.S. economy." Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, claims the Pentagon used its $37 billion cushion to boost contractor profits and shuffle money to pinched programs...
...surprise. Multiple criminal investigations have focused attention on the problem since 1983, when four Kansas City Royals, including a former American League batting champion (Willie Wilson) and a once sensational pitcher (Vida Blue), were sent to prison for cocaine use and other players were implicated but not prosecuted. The impact of last week's disclosures stemmed from the detailed, often poignant, testimony of baseball heroes who told of their own addiction to drugs and, for the first time, ticked off the names of playing buddies with whom they shared the affliction. The / timing could not have been worse. Despite...
...show's impact been limited to the TV screen. This month MCA Records will release a Miami Vice album containing the show's theme music, several songs used in last season's shows, and three new numbers recorded for the coming season by Glenn Frey, Chaka Khan and Grandmaster Melle Mel. Meanwhile, the show's tropical-chic fashions (especially Don Johnson's typical ensemble of Italian sport coat, T shirt, white linen pants and slip-on shoes) have begun to catch on. "The show has taken Italian men's fashion and spread it to mass America," says Kal Ruttenstein...
...last speaker at the forum was Barbara Patton, New York state Democratic assemblyman, from a mostly Republican district on Long Island. Patton, a Black woman, told of her years as a regular Democratic party worker in New York City and of her family's impact on her politics...
Exactly how much effect the political unrest has had on the stability of the country is hard to judge, but the economic impact has been considerable. Given the state of unrest, many foreign bankers seem determined not to renew loans as they mature. This is particularly serious because so much of the debt is short-term; according to various estimates, about two-thirds of South Africa's total foreign debt of some $17 billion will mature within a year. In the past, the banks simply rolled these borrowings over, in the fashion of a charge account. The government's immediate...