Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That hoopla about "Scoring on a Reverse" had to do with one lone touchdown, not the final score in the game against federal deficits [Aug. 30]. Switching courses slightly does not remove the impact of the third tax cut or the military's insatiable appetite for tax dollars. Don't forget that when Ronald Reagan, playing the legendary halfback George Gipp, asked that a Notre Dame team win "one for the Gipper," he was a goner...
...House officials concede that continuing high unemployment (9.8% last month) could darken the rosy Republican hopes. Across the country, political pros of both parties, when asked about the decisive issues in their area, respond with one word: jobs. Some analysts say that if unemployment rises to 10%, the symbolic impact alone might turn ten more House seats over to the Democrats. On the other hand, one of the complexities of this election is the degree to which those hurt by the recession have accepted Reagan's course as painful but necessary. "We don't know what this group...
...their own conviction that Soviet equipment is just not as good as American, and thus they are bound to lose in any future encounters with Israel. The doubt about Moscow's military gear has crept into the dialogues of other customers, and it is having a quiet impact around the world...
...debate echoes far beyond the extended, and far from monolithic, family of 6 million American Jews. It is bound to have some impact on policymakers in Washington, and possibly on those in Jerusalem. The debate means that Begin, who has always been a more controversial figure to American Jews than his predecessors as Prime Minister, can no longer count on the united and vigorous pressure of U.S. Jews to bend the Administration away from any measures that Begin strongly opposes...
...great dramas burst into bright flame. This brushfire production, imported to Broadway from Washington's Kennedy Center, dampens the spirit of the text and absolutely extinguishes its immediacy. Burnt down to basic melodrama, Ghosts creaks like a mediocre television serial. Its terrible symmetry has here all the impact of a bad night at Falcon Crest...