Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fertility rate" (births per 1,000 in the child-bearing age group between 15 and 44) receded 2.3% to 116.9 during 1958's first eight months and is not likely to resume its seven-year rise, says Population Reference Bureau, until after the recession's impact on the birth rate wears...
...reality and balance into my world. I teach agricultural economics, and political interests form my bridge with the Middle West. I enjoy my occasional lectures there. Sometimes I have to see an angry farmer, an angry man without a job, or even an irate Democrat, to realize the full impact of an economic situation...
Repairing Slippage. Despite the headline impact of the new emphasis, U.S. policy in the formal sense remained unchanged. The U.S. would continue to resist Communist expansion by force or threat of force at Quemoy. The U.S. would continue to seek to negotiate a dependable cease-fire with the Red Chinese at Warsaw. Given that, the U.S. might seek to persuade Chiang to withdraw sizable Nationalist contingents from Quemoy-but leaving Quemoy in Nationalist hands-as a means of removing what the President calls "a thorn in the side of peace...
...economic stability, the Macmillan government had bounced back to the top of the opinion polls. Laborites sensed that they might be headed not for office but for a third straight electoral defeat. Opening the conference, Party Chairman Tom Driberg conceded: "Our principles and policies have not yet had the impact on public opinion in Britain that they must have if we are to win the election...
...however uneven and overlong, A Touch of the Poet has impact in a theater whose playwrights generally stand far closer to Con Melody than to O'Neill, in gaudily yet transparently trying to pass for what they are not. O'Neill's stubborn force and burdened, honest feeling help light the way of American drama even when he himself is losing it. And the production, as directed by Harold Clurman, sheds helpful light as well. Eric Portman's Con is often unintelligible, but it conveys a dynamic power of acting, a demonic possession of the role...