Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this year's meeting was another reminder of the limitations not only of forums but also of the ACSR itself. The meeting, attended by more than 150 heard emotional speeches both for and against divestiture, but many participants later said they thought the forum would have little impact on the committee members decisions Nor has the ACSR apparently had much impact on the Corporation's investment policy regarding South Africa...
...been fired at enemy targets in artillery shells, although most of it is put into large drums, loaded onto wooden pallets and then dropped from helicopters and Soviet-made 11-76 transport planes. Each pallet contains six drums and weighs about five tons. The drums burst on impact, spreading the gas over a wide area. The use of gas undoubtedly contributed to Iraq's recent victories. Says Ricardo Fraile, a Paris-based consultant on chemical and biological warfare: "The chemical weapons used by the Third World do not have to be sophisticated since the people they are used against...
Kaplan briefly shows the greasy, macho, tree living lifestyle of the race car driver who is treated like a star. But the audience, like Shirley, is not completely let into this fraternizing crowd. Instead, we are only allowed brief glimpses and therefore never feel their full impact...
...advocate, last month published a book to reveal these abuses and try to show the Administration that children and youth exist and are suffering. Anxious to get the message out, Loiry published his own book on the politics of youth. But while his effort was well-in-tentioned, The Impact of Youth remains too broad and simplistic to become a galvanizing force for change...
...even with the likely positive impact of longer voting hours, officials are predicting only about 30 percent turnout today. That would be lower than the turnout for the 1980 Presidential primary here, mostly because of the lack of Republican challengers...