Word: impacting
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Glazer concurs "The groups involved are not authoritative enough and the crisis is not widespread enough that these reports will have an enormous impact." In fact, Glazer says, he has only fully read one of the reports...
...charges against Kindred, contending that the homeowner's retaliation was "perfectly justified." In the third episode, Ernest Leflore, 50, heard a man breaking into his home and shot him with a .357 magnum pistol. While critical of the trend, Hall conceded that "the Bernhard Goetz affair has had an impact. People are thinking more readily of using a firearm than in the past...
...sympathy of the jury, but not the victim." Lehtinen is leading a petition drive to eliminate this stipulation from the Florida constitution. A new group, Georgians for Victims' Justice, has helped pass state legislation that will permit victims to give written statements to a judge about the impact of a crime on their lives. Another major thrust of these groups is to let victims appear at parole hearings or, at least, require that they be notified before an offender is set free...
Honing one's social small-talk skills is also urged. For those with no interests outside their jobs, Image Impact for Men, a new book, has succinct advice: "Develop some." Readers are advised that a person's face must be carefully controlled: let positive feelings show, but reveal negative ones selectively. The complete executive commands a "repertoire of effective facial expressions," writes James G. Gray, a consultant in Washington...
...when the European Community's ten foreign ministers emerged bleary-eyed from a conference room atop Brussels' Charlemagne Building. They had just cleared the way for the young Iberian democracies, Spain and Portugal, to become the eleventh and twelfth members of the Community next Jan. 1. Beyond its economic impact, the event was fraught with political significance. It helped boost the stature of the two countries' governments and anchored them more firmly in the West European camp. Declared Spanish Foreign Minister Fernando Moran: "Now we can get rid of the inferiority complex in international affairs that Spaniards often have...