Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House to pass even a three-year tax increase of a mere $8 billion. It would have been a token move toward meeting a three-year goal, set by Congress itself last June, of raising $73 billion in new revenue. Even the larger target would have had limited impact on federal deficits that are running at around $200 billion a year. The $8 billion tax bill foundered partly because it would have placed restrictions on industrial bonds issued by states to finance major construction projects. This offended some special interests-construction contractors, building-trades unions and bond brokers-and they...
Nevertheless, the decline is having an impact. In Qatar (pop. 260,000), government ministries have been asked to trim their payrolls by an average of 20%. In the United Arab Emirates (pop. 790,000), officials are considering a reduction of as much as 22% in state employment. That would mean a loss of some 10,000 positions...
Some observers doubted, however, that Forstmann Little would have much impact on Dr Pepper. Says Hugh Zurkuhlen of Wall Street's Salomon Brothers: "It's unlikely that Forstmann Little is going to make a big national push with Dr Pepper." Brian Little said the beverage company's officers, including Chairman W.W. Clements, 69, will remain on the job following the acquisition. "We are owners only," Little noted. "We don't get involved in management...
...must confess, the production has some of the concentrated impact of my original tale of Carmen. You know, the qualities that Nietzsche, just the other day, was saying you had drawn from me-"the logic in passion, the shortest line, the harsh necessity...
...gestures can create a hostile or offensive environment, depending on repeatedness or context. This is why we included a long list of unwanted sexual attentions on the survey, and then categorized the seriousness of incidents with regard to a whole set of critical factors, including repeatedness, context and the impact on the victim...