Word: impactful
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...putting the conservative agenda in place -- locally, not nationally. Now they walk through the halls of capitols and do horse trading." In a parallel development, Fundamentalists have been steadily consolidating control of the nation's largest Protestant denomination, the 14.6 million-member Southern Baptist Convention. One indicator of their impact was last month's resignation of the moderate president at Southeastern Baptist seminary in North Carolina following a Fundamentalist takeover of his board...
Brazilian farmers readily embraced such Rebel contributions as the kerosene lamp and the steel-blade plow, a godsend to a country that hadn't got past the simple hoe. The Southern missionaries whom the settlers hired as teachers also had a lasting impact. The educational tradition they began is one reason that Americana has only a 14% illiteracy rate in a country where one-fourth of the population cannot read or write...
...ultimate impact of a continued devaluation will be a slowdown in the growth of American living standards, or an absolute reduction. But that may be the price of having run huge trade deficits year after year. Says Stephen Marris, an economist with the Institute for International Economics in Washington: "We are in a mess. There is no easy...
...Woods carries the narration; he plots his escape to any land that will publish his Biko biography. The police threaten his cute family with errant gunfire and toxic T shirts, and the viewer is meant to recoil from these domestic atrocities. Of course they are horrid, yet their intended impact reinforces, in dramatic terms, the Afrikaners' credo: white lives mean more. Piling on bogus suspense devices as Woods snakes his way toward freedom, Attenborough lets the venality of South African imperialism degenerate into a staid chase film: The Brady Bunch Flees Apartheid. Once again Attenborough has proved that the road...
...misfortunes, however, touched off a political crisis like that in Washington. For one thing, government leaders quickly pointed to the U.S. stock crash as the main cause of their own market woes. For another, the foreign debacles had nowhere near the potential of Wall Street to cause a major impact on local economies. With the monumental exception of Tokyo, now the world's largest stock market (with a value of almost $2.5 trillion, vs. the New York Stock Exchange's $2 trillion), most foreign markets are small * compared with those in the U.S. Before the October slump, shares...