Word: impacting
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...case, logistical questions are getting more attention than moral ones now. As the visiting spectators began to arrive last week, regular commuters were so good about avoiding what the traffic people charmingly call the "impact zones" that some fear that Los Angeles drivers (those who have not fled town) may be shortly lulled into resuming their ordinary ways. They could even come to the Games. Local newspapers burst with ads for tickets of every stripe, not all placed by overambitious travel agents or venal speculators. Not a few poor fans misunderstood the system or unstrategically overordered and have landed them...
...lifting or drawing closer to reality, they will also face a challenge from the Reagan Administration. As part of its vocal antiabortion stance in a U.S. presidential election year, the Administration has announced sharp new restrictions on family-planning assistance for any organization or country that sanctions abortion. The impact of the policy change may be substantial: it is estimated that U.S. contributions of $240 million represent nearly one-quarter of total worldwide aid spent on family planning. The Administration will also inject its free-market philosophy into the population debate. In Mexico City, the U.S. dele gation, headed...
Fabius is no stranger to controversy. In March 1983 he was promoted from Budget Minister, a junior position in the French Cabinet, to head of the Ministry for Industry and Research. His impact was immediate: he began to redirect large government subsidies away from such loss-making nationalized industries as steel, shipbuilding and coal toward new high-technology enterprises. When the government announced plans to eliminate 25,000 of the 90,000 jobs in the steel industry by 1987, ugly riots erupted in Lorraine...
Perhaps more immediately significant, however, is the potential impact of the studies on military waste, for it is here that the Administration blind spot is most disconcerting. Granted Pentagon waste did not start in with the Reaganites, but clearly a fresh perspective is needed when President Reagan calls current U.S. aid to El Salvador--an amount which, according to published estimates allots more than $20,000 per Salvadoran guerilla--"niggardly," and likens the funding to "letting El Salvador slowly bleed to death." Clearly it is needed when, in the age of $50 screwdrivers and massive cost overruns. Weinberger says...
...criminal justice system loom large indeed. Not only is there no proof that a more narrow application of the exclusionary rule will yield more valid prosecutions, but such cost-benefits, analysis focuses excessively on the short-term pros and cons of laws--rather than the long-range impact of such a major change in this country's governing document...