Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impact upon policy was generally to urge that the U.S. ought to take ever stronger stands against world Communism and that the U.S., while not abandoning its friendship with Israel, ought to concentrate upon repairing and rebuilding its friendship with the Arab states. So skillful was his handling of the crisis of Iran's Mohammed Mossadegh that President Eisenhower gave him the State Department's Distinguished Service Award for "courage and leadership during a dangerously unsettled period, for wisdom and unfailing patience in the course of complex negotiations...
...heighten the impact of these revelations, Cozzens feeds the reader key episodes from Arthur Winner's past with flashbacks so deft as to be intravenous. There is Lawyer Arthur Winner Sr., a dispassionate Victorian man of reason, his son's model and hero. An agnostic, he has been cut down in the fullness of life by cancer, and young Arthur learns his first sobering lesson-"How dies the wise man ... as the fool." With life's occasional flair for overemphasis, the lesson is repeated when Arthur's first wife, Hope, dies from the aftereffects of childbirth...
...bolted together the prototype support machinery. Far from dismantling it and building a sounder model as the Depression gave way to postwar national prosperity. Congress kept attaching gimmicks and gadgets. Meanwhile, what Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson calls a "technological explosion" has taken place on U.S. farms. The combined impact of more machinery, more fertilizer, deadlier insecticides and higher-yielding hybrid seed has upped overall U.S. farm productivity by onethird since 1940, lowered the number of man-hours needed to produce 100 bu. of wheat from 67 to 26. Since the early 19403, the average U.S. farm investment per worker...
...rise above politics and make himself personally unpopular, could end huge surpluses, high price supports, acreage controls and big Agriculture Department budgets. But it was Benson's bad luck to take his job just as the farm economy was about to feel the technological explosion's full impact. Under the impact, farm prices sagged. With net farm income sliding from $13.3 billion in 1953 to $11.6 billion in 1956, U.S. farmers were in no mood for experiments with lower price supports, and Congress was in no mood to make the farmers any madder. So Benson found Congress unwilling...
...space and manpower. On business developments of major national significance, such as a raise in interest rates or a steel price boost, business editors seldom interpret or supplement a Page One wire story by interviewing the bankers, economists, labor leaders who can give remote decisions local dollars-and-cents impact. One reason is that business news is frequently entrusted to a shaky old hand or an untested new one. "Being assigned to business," sniffs a Phoenix reporter, "is like being made dog editor." City editors too often agree. Thus, on a big local-business story such as a strike...