Word: impactful
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While many claim that they care about labor issues, I am the only candidate who was selected by the AFL-CIO to investigate the impact of so-called "maquiladores"--cross-border factories set up by American corporations to exploit low-cost Mexican labor and lax environmental enforcement. I am also the only candidate in the race who has officially refused to take money from political action committees...
Overall summer business finished 12 percent stronger than last year's, with $2.5 billion and nine films making more than $100 million: "Armageddon," "Saving Private Ryan," "Deep Impact," "Dr. Dolittle," "Godzilla," "There's Something About Mary," "Lethal Weapon 4," "The Truman Show" and "Mulan." The fall season kicks off next weekend with "Rounders," starring Matt Damon and Edward Norton, and "Simon Birch," a critically maligned adaptation of the John Irving novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany...
Right now she's making her chief impact with her music. Hill wrote and produced every song on her CD (except for two standards she covers). Her album also uses live instruments, giving it a fresh, personal feel. "People like Lauryn and Wyclef and Missy [Elliot] are making creative albums," says Funk Master Flex, a D.J. for New York City's Hot 97 radio station, whose own CD, The Mix Tape Volume III, is a Top 10 hit. "They're sending a signal to other artists: check yourselves, and step up your game...
...take over and merge captured Arab territory into its lands, then in my opinion the best chance for peace is for the Israelis to create a new name and new flag for their country that both Jewish and Arab citizens can identify with. This change would have a deep impact on Arab views about participating in a country they once held and lost in war. PAUL ELLIOT Acton, Mass...
...good news is that the economic Chernobyl of Russia, which exports nothing but dirt-cheap oil and old CCCP hockey jerseys, should have absolutely no impact on the average American wallet. The bad news, of course, is that it's taking your retirement fund to the cleaners -- and it's coming back shrunk. Blame it on the traders, those skittish little folk who, after months of buying like mad (and making you rich) for absolutely no reason, are gazing up gapemouthed at CNBC's clips of W.C. Yeltsin and seeing...