Word: impacting
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Most of the states with large populations--thus more congressmen--have Democratically-controlled state Houses and commissions. These bodies reconfigure districts, packing large numbers of Republicans into only a few C.D.s, and somewhat diminishing the potential impact of a Republican electorate. California's Democratically-controlled state legislature is notorious for its practice of altering the geography of particular districts when it thinks Republicans are growing too strong. A ballot proposal now seeks to put the gerrymandering process into the hands of a bipartisan, independent commission...
...allegations were presented at a three-day hearing in New York City held by the President's Commission on Organized Crime. Led by Federal Judge Irving Kaufman, it was created in July of last year to investigate, publicize and suggest ways to lessen the impact of organized crime in the U.S. The hearings last week focused on Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese gangs. Attorney General William French Smith, the lead-off witness, warned that "organized crime has entered a new historical phase-its international phase." Judge Kaufman contended that some of the Asian gangs terrorized their immigrant communities and accounted...
Conservatives have made that argument before, but no one has documented it as thoroughly as Murray does. During the 1970s, he points out, annual social welfare spending by the U.S. Government nearly doubled, after adjustment for inflation, to about $300 billion. Yet all that money had virtually no impact on poverty. In fact, the percentage of the population living below the poverty line, currently set at an income of $10,178 for a family of four, rose from 12.6% in 1970 to 13% by 1980. Murray contends that this lack of progress cannot be blamed on a sluggish economy...
...visit must have a strong impact if it is to offset the President's appearance today. He will also have to give a push to Democratic Senate candidate Lt. Gov. John F. Kerry, whose lead over Republican Raymond Shamie has not grown despite charges that Shamie is connected to the John Birch Society and may shrink after today's Reagan endorsement...
...that time, the goal had about as much of an impact on the game's outcome as a flea stepping on an elephant's toe, and perhaps fittingly, a flock of seagulls began hovering over the Tufts half of the pitch like a bunch of vultures waiting for a wounded animal...