Word: impactful
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...analyze and weigh the performances of the candidates and the impact of Sunday night's debate on the election, TIME called on half a dozen experts from Government, politics and academe. Their comments and conclusions...
Geraldine Ferraro's trail-blazing campaign has taken on meaning beyond politics for millions of American women. To get a sense of this somewhat hidden impact on private lives, TIME Contributor Jane O'Reilly met with women in Cleveland before and after the vice-presidential debate, and during a Ferraro campaign stop there last week. Her report...
Taken alone, last week's price cuts will have little impact on fuel prices in the U.S. But if they force OPEC to cut its benchmark Arab Light by about $1.50, to $27.50, gasoline prices in the U.S. could fall by about 30 per gal. Lower energy prices would spark more economic growth. But a fall in oil revenue would aggravate the problems of such countries as Mexico and Venezuela, which depend largely on oil income to pay their enormous foreign debts. Their trouble could extend to the dozens of U.S. banks that hold Latin American loans...
...economic impact last week in Britain was sharp and swift. The $1.35-per-bbl. price cut will diminish the government's $13 billion annual oil revenues by about 5%. On the day of the announcement, the British pound fell to a record low of $1.19. Shaken by the skidding currency and a possible worsening of the country's coal miners' strike, traders on the London Stock Exchange sent the Financial Times industrial share index to its steepest one-day loss in history...
Westmoreland contends that what CBS portrayed as a conspiracy was in reality a legitimate and widely understood debate about how to evaluate the impact of part-time, often untrained, guerrilla opponents. He charges that CBS News Producer George Crile and Correspondent Mike Wallace willfully ignored evidence that supported him. To bolster his attack, Westmoreland's attorney Dan Burt summoned as witnesses both Rostow, who had given a three-hour interview to CBS that was left on the cutting-room floor, and former Special Ambassador Robert Komer, who was not even questioned by the CBS producers...