Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impact launched Silverstein into the second row of the portable grandstand. Thompson turned the corner to ward victory. He never made...
...suspicion lingers in many minds that the whole affair will eventually fade, enduring only as a kind of 1970s cultural period piece, with no more moral significance than, say, a vicuna coat or a deep freezer. Even now, says Washington Political Analyst Richard Scammon, "Watergate does not have much impact on anyone any more. Fact and fiction are so interwoven that people don't know which is which. They don't remember the Saturday Night Massacre. They do remember the Texas Chainsaw Massacre that they saw on the late TV movie...
...default rate can also make hard times worse. Consumers feel poorer and tend to spend less when they fear for their homes, or when values are dropping, since housing is the largest investment that most people make. In California, where home prices have more than quadrupled since 1970, the impact of foreclosures may be especially damaging. Says Shulman: "People here have been counting on their homes to build their fortunes." Those fortunes increasingly look as if they may be built on sand...
...advantages are obvious. No staples, no paper. The merry mailman cannot mangle the thing in your letter slot and twist it into some kind of soft-cover Calder. There may be other benefits as well. Fast information. Ease of illustration. Graphic impact. "Video is the new printing press," Publishing Entrepreneur Nicolas Charney likes to say, but it is not necessary to bury Gutenberg to appreciate the possibilities of magazines on video and to spot, in five new entries, the beginnings of what seems to be a trend...
...first faculty members were outwardly sympathetic towards the students, allowing them to air their views at meetings of the student-faculty curriculum committee. Yet the final outcome suggests that the concerns of the first two classes - who will be the only current students affected by the changes had little impact...