Word: impacting
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COLANTUONO PLAYS DOWN his impact on the council. During his campaign for the chairmanship, he promised to serve the council, and not dictate a personal agenda. While he certainly has not betrayed that promise, he is influencing the council with a model expediency which will hopefully be habit-forming. Colantuono still says he will "follow the direction of the council." But it has become clear that after considerable time spent in circuitous meetings within Harvard's previous student government structure, he plans to keep firm reins on the group during his one-semester term...
...MAINE GOES, no goes the nation." That old nostrum of American political wisdom provides as good a reason as any to keep a close watch on this year's Maine Senate race. In a year when most election contests are referenda on the impact of President Ronald Reagan's economic policies, the candidates in Maine offer voters perhaps the clearest choice anywhere between "staying the course" with Reaganomics and giving the Democrats another chance...
...psychological impact of the voting results may well transcend the practical outcome. If Republicans minimize their losses, it will give Reagan a new surge of perceived authority to continue the course he has set. A Democratic landslide would frighten even those Republicans who were spared defeat into taking a more independent line from the White House. Indeed, the symbolic importance attached to the outcome could be self-fulfilling: even though the election is really a collection of 504 unrelated races, if both Democrats and Republicans increasingly view it as a referendum on Reagan's economic policies, the election could...
...John Lennon in the august company of the Kennedy and King. The man was, after all, a rock star with long hair, into drugs, who once posed naked for an album cover and painted yellow flowers on his Rolls Royce. How easy it is to forget the impact Lennon and his Beatles cohorts had on popular and also avant-garden culture, an impact that transcended nations and people. When Lennon claimed in the mid-1960's that the Beatles were "bigger than Jesus," he wasn't boasting: it was the truth...
Whatever punitive economic impact sanctions may have, they have almost invariably failed to achieve their political goal: to change the conduct of an offending government. The League of Nations embargo did not force Italy to withdraw from Ethiopia. Instead, as Renwick notes, the pressure "stiffened Italian resolve...