Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...formal pose that may come partly from inexperience and partly too from something inborn: a sense that she may always be in an adversarial position with the camera. Lineage has given her career impetus, but it is a feeling of irresolution that gives her professional photos much of their impact. Most models work hard to beguile the camera, and Stephanie is clearly learning to do that. But in some shots, it looks as if she means less to seduce the camera than to snuff...
...consider that prospect. Afterward, O'Neill reiterated his opposition to direct contra aid and pronounced the embargo to be premature. "Economic embargoes," said the Speaker, "should follow the failure of diplomacy rather than following the failure of the Reagan Administration to get its way in Congress." Nonetheless, as the impact of Ortega's Moscow pilgrimage continued to spread, it seemed that the contra aid issue might be resurrected sooner than anyone expected...
...partners would find difficult to meet. U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz stated U.S. eagerness to talk trade liberalization with any groups of nations, or even individual countries, that are willing to deal if a GATT conference could not be convened. But such piecemeal negotiations would lack the impact of a worldwide conference and would risk shredding the multilateral trading system. Bit-by- bit talks would also force a test of loyalties on European nations. Paris lost no time reminding them that there are questions about the kind of bargains that could be struck without the consent of France...
Many experts believe the principal value of the summits has been to force heads of government, especially the American President, to brief themselves on details of trade, currency and interest-rate problems that they might otherwise neglect and to make an effort to gauge what impact their economic policies have on other countries. West German Chancellor Kohl's predecessor, Helmut Schmidt, in an often quoted reflection on the eight summits he attended, said that "they did not bring about much, but what they avoided was of enormous importance." At every summit, for example, the seven leaders renew what amounts...
...face. The chronic inability of these young people to get jobs, even during a boom time, has become one of the most painful and persistent economic problems facing the U.S. Says Robert Coard, executive director of Action for Boston Community Development: "This syndrome is having a terrible impact on the morale of the minority community and this city in general...