Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan has been producer, director and star in the first act of one of the most extraordinary political dramas this nation has seen. At noon on Wednesday, Jan. 20, with no special fanfare planned, the President completes a year in office, only one-fourth of his allotted term. The impact on Reagan of this first year is subtle, hard to detect by even those close to him. He tells more jokes than he used to, perhaps as a diversion from grim dilemmas and grimmer decisions. His infrequent secret moments may have lower depths than before...
...appearances of a very normal storm as it came across the Pacific," said National Weather Service Meteorologist Richard Wagoner. But the storm was far from normal, and so was its nightmarish impact. The extraordinarily heavy rains that poured down on Northern California last week-in some areas, more than a foot in 32 hours-followed weeks of rain that had saturated the porous clay earth. On Monday, mountainsides began turning to mud, flowing in thick torrents over towns and rural houses in their paths. In wealthy Marin Bounty, just north of San Francisco, more han 80 houses were destroyed...
...Angels' effort to forge a national network has had mixed success. In New Orleans Angels have nabbed a knife-wielding robber with a record of 57 previous arrests and a pickpocket who turned out to be a murder suspect wanted by police. In other cities, their impact is not so clearly evident. A police spokesman in Pasadena, assessing their performance in patrolling the Tournament of Roses Parade, summed up the verdict of many observers: "No runs, no hits and no errors." In Boston the Angels predicted that there would be 250 volunteers on patrol...
...million metric tons a year, expires in September. If it is not renewed, the Soviets might suffer severe food shortages next winter. But soon they would undoubtedly line up alternate grain suppliers as they did during the last embargo. That might have a lasting negative impact on U.S. farm exports. Says John Dunbar, Dean of Agriculture at Kansas State University: "Argentina, Brazil, Canada and Australia would all like long-term deals with Moscow. If we are perceived as an unreliable supplier, a lot of our former business with the Soviets could go elsewhere permanently." Adds Clifton Luttrell, chief agricultural economist...
...twist, punch and slash the continuous form one expects of a pot's surface, opening it up to create the visible inner spaces that belong to sculpture. Compared with the best abstract expressionist Voulkos' sculpture (David Smith's, say), somewhat clumsy and overworked, but its impact on the art community in California was immense; Voulkos had opened up the territory of an entire medium, and the use of clay became a standard sign of independence from New York...