Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stewart: Insofar as the decision of cases-and these almost invariably are difficult cases-has an impact upon policy I should say that it could be judged to be a policy-making body...
Carl Kaysen, professor of Economics, will go to Greece next year to study the impact of United States aid on the local economy. The first in a series which will cover several countries, the study concerns the relationship of American mutual security programs to the government and private businesses in Greece...
...President Julius Stratton: "The earth sciences stand on the threshold of great advances, as did electronics ten years ago. The gift . . . will enable geologists, chemists, physicists, meteorologists and oceanographers to work side by side in a basic and applied scientific program which will have, I am certain, the greatest impact on our economy and society...
Testifying on his own behalf, Barber told the court that "the first time I saw the injured man was at the moment of impact." He stated that he was "very confused" and neither accelerated nor slowed down after the accident...
Like the other books of Durrell's Alexandrian cycle, Mountolive has vivid imagery (the impact of the desert night is like "the flutter of eyelashes against the mind") and penetrant thought (no such thing as art exists for artists and the public; "it only exists for critics and those who live in the forebrain"). The book also has scenes of ghastly hilarity, as when Mountolive stumbles inadvertently into a brothel of child prostitutes and nearly loses his reason as well as his wallet...