Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...barreling ahead at an 8.8% annual growth rate during the first half of 1984, the economy will slow in the coming months, but it still has enough momentum to keep going at least through 1985. Even a national auto strike against GM would have only a limited and temporary impact, unless it lasted for many months...
...future." Nor do the economists expect any upsurge in either interest rates or inflation that could hurt Ronald Reagan's campaign. Said Charles Schultze, who was President Carter's chief economic adviser: "It's virtually inconceivable that anything could happen now that would have a significant impact on the election...
When NBC began planning a major series of reports from the Soviet Union, eventually involving six hours of coverage, the network hoped the package would have political impact. Said the project's originator, NBC Vice President Gordon Manning: "We regard Soviet-American relations as the most important campaign issue." Last week the programs, collectively called The New Cold War, got off to an attention-getting start: during a live interview with Soviet military Chief of Staff Sergei Akhromeyev and Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Korniyenko, Today Anchor Bryant Gumbel asked whether Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko would accept an invitation...
Most scientists do agree that much of the weakened impact of antibiotics can be blamed on doctors who overprescribe antibiotics, ordering them, for example, for virus-caused colds, and on people who use them indiscriminately. Veterinarian Jerry Brunton of the Animal Health Institute, a lobbying group, finds major flaws in the study: "No meat samples were available to indicate that disease-causing organisms were ever present, nor were such organisms isolated in the meat processing and preparation locations or from the farm where the alleged source animals were raised...
...themselves, each of these tales of sorrow might make an interesting topic for a play. Yet the unlikely combination of the three--clumsily intertwined with a less than subtle statement decrying industrial exploitation of the defenseless Indians--causes Angels Fall to lose the impact of its message. By the second act, these self-professed disinterested individuals have become interested enough in one another to begin lecturing them. When Father Dougherty tells the cast, "I think I will preach a sermon tonight," the audiences' worst fears are confirmed...