Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presidential campaign began, the tax-cut proposal was the centerpiece of his economic policy. But when Reagan wrapped up the Republican nomination, the G.O.P.'s mainstream economists flocked to his fold, and the influence of Laffer, Wanniski and Kemp waned as old-line conservatives began having an impact. Among the most prominent: Alan Greenspan, Gerald Ford's chief
Whether the program will have the hoped-for impact remains to be seen. Get High on Yourself begins with a belief that youths take drugs mostly out of boredom and peer pressure, that there is nothing particularly seductive or pleasurable about the drugs themselves. Through decades, doctors, social workers and legislators have learned that the drug problem is complex and deeply rooted. Even Judge Broderick sounded as much wistful as hopeful when he urged Evans to seek "a breakthrough where others have failed." -By William A. Henry III. Reported by Martha Smilgis/Los Angeles
Findings from Ebla may have an even broader impact. Many liberal Bible scholars treat Abraham not as a historical figure but as a sort of Semitic King Arthur. Their view is that the stories about Abraham and the other Patriarchs must have been written down more than 1,000 years later than the events they purport to describe. Now, in the area of the world that produced the Bible, Ebla has established that sophisticated and extensive written culture existed well before Moses and even Abraham, as early as the middle of the 3rd millennium B.C. According to the ebullient Dahood...
...department has tried to minimize the impact of the missing names by sending all concentrators an amended copy of the department's offerings, including the names of professors for all courses...
...Their editorials seek more to reason than to rant. Op-Ed pages give others a voice. Papers that don't want to make waves rent their opinions from elsewhere and are careful to choose columnists across a spectrum of views. Even highly opinionated columnists are diminished in impact when they become simply another carefully chosen hue on a color wheel of opinion. Editorials, particularly on chain-owned newspapers, are apt to be blandly in favor of worthy causes and prudently evasive on issues that rile and divide the city...