Word: impactful
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...naming of Sokolov was not expected to have much impact on next week's meeting between Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz. Whatever debate may have gone on in Moscow through much of 1984 about the wisdom of resuming arms-control talks with the U.S., the Kremlin seems determined to make every effort to limit President Reagan's so- called Star Wars plan. The selection of a defense-establishment functionary like Sokolov for the top military job seemed designed to ensure the continuity of that policy...
Klein argues--in an academic thesis-evidence-thesis-impact style which occasionally tries the reader's patience--that women's changing roles have led to a transformation of their consciousness. This change in turn has provoked a recognition that they, as a group, are the victims of discrimination. Present day feminist politics has its origins in this discontent...
...means, read the rest Klein's work may not be as zippy or as timely as a New York Times post mortem on Gerry Ferraro, but it's impact on the Women's Movement will probably be more significant...
...from E.M. Forster's sublime novel A Passage to India, their function far transcends the purely pictorial. In Lean's cinema there is no such thing as an idle shot, something that survives to the final cut merely because it is striking in its beauty or novel in its impact. Particularly in the Lean films that people conveniently but mistakenly identify as "epics" or "spectacles"?movies like The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago?the largest weight of his meaning is carried not by dialogue but by images, and by his manner of juxtaposing them...
...panel acknowledged that a number of obstacles must be removed if its recommendations are to have an impact on American health. First, cholesterol testing must be standardized across the country. At present, results from one laboratory to the next may vary by as much as 10% to 15%, and some laboratories continue to regard readings of up to 300 mg as within the normal range. The panel called on the food industry to provide better labeling of the fat content in processed foods, and it urged restaurants to offer lower-fat items on their menus. Public education was seen...