Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard faculty and students yesterday expressed uncertainty about the impact of the assassination of Prime Minister Indira P.N. Gandhi on India's political stability...
Canetti's treatment of the issue of death itself, by contrast, is less artistically solid. While Canetti unquestionably leaves the audience both pensive and frustrated--even Fifty cannot escape his own mortality--his cumbersome handling of the subject reduces the impact of his message. Most of the early vignettes are repetitious and clumsily crafted, lacking either substantive dramatic power or much-needed comic relief...
...funding resolution by Republicans eager to campaign on it, went into effect with the President's signature ten days ago. At first reading, some civil libertarians were concerned about infringements of constitutional guarantees. At the same tune, criminal-law experts doubted that the act would have as much impact on the crime rate as its advocates claim, since 95% of violent crime is prosecuted under state jurisdiction. The act's most significant provisions...
...body's legislative agenda, be its principal spokesman and act as his party's prime troubleshooter on the floor. It is almost certain that the Republican Party will maintain its dominance in the Senate--but the character of the person it chooses to guide it will have a large impact both on inter-party relations and on the policies that come out of the 99th Congress...
...citizens' panel charged with overseeing the police force. Although the proposed Cambridge Police Review and Advisory Board would be limited to making recommendations, it is a first step toward monitoring the behavior of the local police. Unfortunately, however, it is too small a step to have any real impact on the serious problems within the Cambridge Police Department...