Word: impacting
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...appearance in Washington of sleek limousines rolling away from the city's Madison Hotel to carry Saudi Arabian princes and high officials to meetings with Senators had an impact. American-educated Saudi Prince Turki attended a lunch given by South Dakota's pro-Arab James Abourezk for 22 other Senators. Individually, Turki and another member of the Saudi royal family, Prince Bandar, met with other Senators. Also from Riyadh came Ghazi Algosaibi, Minister of Industry and Power, and Sulaiman As-Salim, Minister of Commerce. All were low-key but sophisticated salesmen who, in excellent English, made a strong...
Holocaust's Impact...
...Deals like this one give plea bargaining a bad name," fumed the morning Sun, which originally broke the scandal. Much of the public seemed to agree. The kid-gloves treatment of Carcich may hurt Burch, who is running for Governor in the Sept. 12 primary. The longer range impact will come in Washington. The Pallottines were not the only agency that used 80% or more of their gifts to cover the exorbitant costs of direct mail. Congress is now considering a new law to force charities to disclose such unhappy facts to potential contributors...
This will immediately push up the costs to magazine and newspaper publishers, mail-order houses and direct-mail advertisers, as well as to utilities, department stores, credit-card issuers and other businesses that mail bills by the billions. Says Robert Lenz, assistant comptroller of New York Telephone Co.: "The impact is very direct on us because we mail about 6.2 million bills a month. Roughly each cent of postal increase will cost us some $800,000 a year. That's a big whammo...
...impact would vary from country to country; but overall the amendment would push the tax bills for Americans overseas at least as high as for Stateside employees, and in many cases far higher. Rich, high-technology firms that need to keep only a few executives overseas can pick up the increased taxes for their employees. Doing so would of course increase an employee's income and raise his taxes still more the following year. But if U.S. firms in labor-intensive operations attempt to compensate their overseas Americans for the extra tax load, their payroll costs could rise...