Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Economic sanctions would be no more than a symbol of dubious impact. Symbolic effect, while important, must be weighed against the costs of symbolic action. Clearly a grain embargo would seriously hurt agri-business and damage the U.S. balance of trade; those costs far outweigh any symbolic gains...
...fantasies of adolescent boys. Others display explicit but deadpan eroticism among billboard-style oranges and ashtrays. Always provocative, usually amusing and sometimes shocking, Wesselmann's work reflects America's amorous obsessions. In his windy and erratic assessment, "Critic" Slim Stealingworth tends to overvalue the artist's impact on his age. That is to be expected. Stealingworth, after all, is the pen name of none other than the prolific Wesselmann...
...Thomas' tone is about as judicious as Friz Freleng's. David (Nick Mancuso), depressed over a short-circuited affair, falls in with some "Heavenly Children" who presoak his brain with homilies and then scrub it clean of all hope, feeling, self. Although it has plenty of impact, Ticket is often too busy being outraged to bother with niceties of characterization and plot. (Just how does David become converted? At what point does he snap out of it?) And so it ignores the central dilemma: that kidnaping an adult, however pure the motive or dear the victim, is against...
...National Women's Caucus, said yesterday. It is a matter of how many state legislators vote for the bill but "lobbying pressure on the candidates is valid," she added in reference to the students' efforts. Reiss said she was optimistic that students, and other organizers would have a large impact...
...Hastings Center Report, which examines issues concerning ethics and the natural sciences. A week before TEAM met in Menlo Park, summaries of 88 articles were distributed to the group's members. Subjects in last week's packet of clippings ranged from an Asia 2000 report on the impact of nuclear power plant radiation on the spiderwort plant, to a British magazine story that Lufthansa Airlines is now using trains instead of planes on some routes in West Germany...