Word: impacting
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...course, wives have pull with husbands. In the Reagans' case, her impact & may be greater because the bond is stronger. After 33 years together, they are, by all accounts, rapturously fond of each other. "She has always had more influence than people generally realize," says Michael Deaver, the departing White House deputy chief of staff and long her principal ally in the Administration. Even when she does not make her position known on an issue, Administration officials have learned to anticipate her potential support or opposition and proceed accordingly. "The threat of her influence," says one White House aide...
Unusual climate throughout the nation over the past ten months prompted the National Research Council to conduct intensive studies of the greenhouse effect. Their findings--which have been substantiated by numerous independent researchers--suggest that the pollution problem can have immediate and dramatic effects. The council asserts that the impact of the greenhouse effect could be felt at anytime, with "diverse consequences for human society...
...committee's prediction that the greenhouse effect could have "diverse consequences for human society" meanwhile is based on a newfound respect for the potentially devastating impact of the greenhouse effect. It has long been suspected that increasing carbon dioxide levels would melt the polse ice caps leading to massive costial flooding and seriously disruption agricultural production, but recent studies have turned a possibility into a probability. The greenhouse effect has already caused glacier movements in the Canadian Arctic and Antarctica. Still, more foreboding is that recent studies of the Ice Age 40,000 years ago suggest that the last glacier...
...decision that bars state prohibitions even in the third trimester in cases where the health of the mother is endangered has been so liberally construed as to include such open-ended absurdities as "economic" and "psychological" health, which essentially means that a woman can complain of the impact of having a child on her future income stream in order to get it "terminated...
...growth rate dropped to 1.6% in the July-September quarter, but the slowdown came too late to have much impact on the election. Moreover, the Federal Reserve realized that it had been too stringent and opened up the money-supply spigot. That helped send the prime rate down to 10.75% by late December. In the fourth quarter, growth picked up to an estimated 2.8% pace. Concluded Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige: "This year the economy came in like a lion and is going out like a lamb...