Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...financial impact statement given to the Cambridge City Council last week by City Manager Robert Healy shows that $5.1 million is not enough 350 employees would still be laid off, including 29 firemen and 30 police officers. Indeed if 2 1/2 is not eventually altered, the city will be left with next to no government. It will pay the interest on its debt, and its pension obligations, and little else...
That candid suggestion of U.S. inferiority went well beyond anything said by Reagan's recent predecessors in the White House. The President and his advisers had discussed the issue beforehand. They clearly underestimated the political and diplomatic impact of the statement, which once more conveyed to some observers of the press conference a sense that Reagan lacked command of foreign affairs. Some nuclear experts charged that Reagan was simply wrong-a question on which there is room for argument (see box). Others contended that whether or not the President was right as to the facts, his admission of weakness...
Though Law School placement officials observe no appreciable change in the number of graduates going into public sector jobs. Villarreal says that activism will have a long-term impact. "I think it's good because it makes people multi-faceted." she points out. "I will probably work for a firm, but I have a strong commitment to classes that will not be my clients, and I will try to help those people," she explains...
...prelude to future scientific work aboard the ship. Some 96 seeds and seedlings were kept in Columbia's cabin to see how they would grow in conditions of weightlessness. Other instruments studied the shuttle's electrical characteristics, the effect of the solar wind and the impact of micrometeorites, stray particles floating through space. One of the most complex of these experiments was a 350-lb. automated lab called the plasma diagnostics package. Held aloft and moved about by the mechanical arm, it measured the electromagnetic fields and charged gases around the orbiter...
...impact on toxic-shock cases is unclear...