Word: impactful
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Equally and more immediately consequential is the impact of a Jackson candidacy upon the voting behavior of Blacks--especially working-class and lower-class Blacks who make up a disproportionate share of the "party of non-voters," to use Walter Dean Burnham's apt phrase. Nationally, some 41 percent of 17.6 million voting-age Afro-Americans are not registered (compared to 34 percent of voting-age whites) and in the South (whose electoral votes will be crucial in 1984) the situation is worse still. Voter apathy among Blacks is tantamount to political suicide in today's neo-conservative...
...Institute for Conservation of Archaeology (ICA), which for seven years carried out environmental impact studies for the Peabody Museum, will shortly complete its final projects before it becomes extinct itself...
...VIEWER who can accept this dichotomy, though, Daniel packs a stunning impact in both emotional intensity and social and political commentary. The 1940's scenes offer personal and touching glimpses of the Isaacsons family life and of the importance of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson's politics as a motivating force within the family. The Isaacsons' trial and execution, depicted without any clarification of their guilt or innocence, serves to focus attention upon questions of the validity of their political activism and the validity of a judicial system which was so easily swayed by the social paranoia of the Cold...
...deficit are ominous. Government borrowing will clash with the capital needs of private industry to keep interest rates high. The outcome may not be another recession but a continuation of what Feldstein called "the lopsided recovery," an expansion driven by consumption and Government spending that has an uneven impact on the economy and produces profound structural changes...
Fitzsimmonssaid that he "hopes [the newsletter] will improve our image" with counselors because they have a great impact on the quantity and number of applicants of the college...