Word: impactful
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...still writing in the American grain. Born in Canada to a Mohawk mother and a Jewish father, Robertson talks about American mythology, about leaving home in Ronnie Hawkins' barbed-wire rock band and touring rural America, about going "down South, where the music and folklore had enormous impact on me." All those great early Band songs (The Weight, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, The Shape I'm In, Up on Cripple Creek) were Robertson's way of measuring and transmuting all that experience. The material on this record just deepens his traditional alchemy. "That's what I feel...
...Reagan initiatives. On the other hand, failure to reach agreement while President Reagan is in office might run the risk of developing a situation where President Reagan might become a powerful critic." Gorbachev seemed impressed. "I don't believe anything I said during the conversation had a greater impact on him," wrote Nixon...
...Services, said recently, "and shame to strength." Evident all around is a busy sense of awakening. Children are learning about the perils of alcohol in school through slogans like "Get Smart, Don't Start -- Just Say No." The accumulated scientific findings of the past decade are having a major impact on the public. Recently a Gallup poll found that a great majority of American adults are convinced that alcoholism is indeed an illness rather than a sign of moral backsliding. In that, they have the support of the American Medical Association, which 21 years ago formally declared alcoholism a disease...
...bill will only impact Harvard's use or production of a certain substance if the quantity of the chemical involved exceeds a certain number of pounds per year, said L'Ecuyer. The bill holds accountable anyone using or producing more than 25,000 pounds of a listed substance per year as well as those making "any other use" of more than 10,000 pounds per year...
...labor skates, hustlers, social climbers, clergy, judges, tourists, professors, bureaucrats and any number of crooks, white collar and otherwise. In short, it has served as America come to the front office to complain. Washington is bigger, lustier and louder than ever, and it is still the final point of impact on the presidency...