Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cast members' vocals come from the stage and the band's music comes from the pit. Somewhere, the rhythm is out of sync. Fortunately, the off rhythms never diverge far enough to destroy any of the numbers. Generally, the sound effects and the music add effectively to the emotional impact of the script...
Worse yet, these biases go beyond simply judging academic performance--they have a strong impact on other aspects of our culture as well, from politics to employment...
...company mired in debt can ill afford to build new plants or develop new products, since most of its earnings go to pay off borrowings. The shortage of investment can then dampen U.S. growth and damage the ability of American firms to compete abroad. In a slump, the impact can be dramatic. A study by the Washington-based Brookings Institution, a liberal think tank, estimated that a new recession could jolt 10% of major U.S. companies into bankruptcy...
House Speaker Jim Wright last week urged steps to slow the pace of buyouts, which he said were having a damaging "psychological and economic impact." Meanwhile, members of the Senate Finance Committee have been quietly pondering measures that would reduce the tax loopholes for interest payments and give a break to dividends. To cushion the Wall Street impact of such provisions, they might be included as part of a general tax bill that would seek to narrow the budget deficit...
...which will slash insurance rates to 20% below November 1987 levels. Good drivers will get yet another 20% off. Although the vote covered all types of property and casualty insurance, the auto-premium cuts were the heart of the measure. The most breathless of its proponents expect its impact to rival that of Proposition 13, the 1978 California initiative that set off a coast-to-coast fight against high property taxes. "The genie is out of the bottle," says Harvey Rosenfield, 36, the author of Proposition 103. "This is the taxpayer rebellion...