Word: impactful
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...perhaps the most worrisome consequence of the reforms was their impact on voter turnout: As the primary system grew longer and longer, popular participation steadily declined. Some analysts, including former President Jimmy Carter, have argued that the drop in turnout is due mostly to more complex registration requirements--but registration has been made progressively easier in the last decade and voting hours have been extended. Nor can the "new apathy" be adequately attributed to a lack of clear issue choices and difference between party candidates; 1980, the Presidential election with the lowest percentage turnout to date, was a case study...
...last he made it, with two teen-age sons, four campaign aides, an amazing 21 Secret Service men, five American ministers and, he said, "high hopes." Declared Jackson in Damascus: "The ultimate victory would be to get Goodman out, but we've already had an enormous impact...
After meeting with their constituents during the current congressional recess, Senators and Representatives reported a rising chorus of complaints about the Marines' presence in Lebanon. A common concern was that the roughly 1,800 Marines cannot have much impact in the warring nation, except to draw fire from one or more of the religious groups that see the U.S. as an enemy. "The President has overstated the objective," contended Indiana Congressman Lee Hamilton, a conservative Democrat and a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "We're not going to achieve it: a solid, united Lebanon from...
...pervading silliness is worrisome, there are matters of even greater impact implicit in the vidblitz. Although Keith Richard readily admits, "You can always enjoy dressing up and leaping about for a few minutes," he wonders where struggling beginners will get the means to do it for the camera. "If new bands have to worry about the cost of making a record, and also about making a video, how is that going to weigh out? What about the few who get a lucky crash on a video and sell a record-how much does that have to do with the record...
...Stan Shmenge: Power to the Punk People (Polka) (Yelte Velton). Actually, Eugene Levy and John Candy, two grandmasters of comedy from SCTV, doing some memorable demolition work on excesses of the video genre. The Shmenges are a couple of accordion yankers whose attempts to go current have the impact of Lawrence Welk playing a guest set with the Grateful Dead...