Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Observes Paris Correspondent William Blaylock: "French politics plops across the ideological platter like a dropped soufflé. Candidates seem to have no shared opinions, no established rules of fair play. Nor do they seem to want any." Correspondent Sandra Burton interviewed government officials and French sociologists to assess the impact of the new administration and was struck by the blasé way most Frenchmen greeted the Socialist victory in the parliament. Says Burton: "The only turmoil in Paris on election night was the traffic jam caused by Parisians returning from sunny weekends in the country...
...Perkins of Kentucky. Perkins' ploy was to meet the goals of the House budget resolution by cynically slashing politically popular programs, for which funding would almost certainly be restored during floor debate. Examples: ending college loans for families making more than $25,000 a year and cutting off "impact aid" to school districts that serve federal facilities, primarily military bases. Other committees met their "goals" by proposing to close 10,000 post offices, abolish the Export-Import Bank and eliminate a program that provides meals for the elderly. "That's the kind of junk we are facing," said...
...Republicans, as they had with the bipartisan budget resolution, might be able to sway enough conservative Democrats to pass their own budget plan. Democrats decided to reverse some of their cuts. Perkins called his committee Democrats into caucus and chose to restore $1.75 billion for such programs as school impact aid, student loans and Head Start preschool education centers. The committee offset that by eliminating $1.57 billion from other programs -$1 billion from the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) job program, as the Administration had recommended...
Others had fewer doubts. Said one Israeli official: "I think something positive has happened to world welfare in the same way that we made a major impact on the hijacking situation at Entebbe. Today nobody gives in to hijacking blackmail. When the criticism has subsided, people will realize that you can't allow every small country, particularly like Iraq, to own the atom bomb." Said Miriam Hefetz, 29, a government secretary: "We're doing the dirty work for the rest of the world. We have nothing to be ashamed of. Somebody had to stop Iraq...
Initial reviews of Timerman's memoir were generally favorable. Now, however, an increasingly acrimonious quarrel has erupted over Timerman's testimony, involving prominent U.S. intellectuals and leaders of both the Argentine and American Jewish communities. In part, the arguments have arisen because of Timerman's political impact. On U.S. television, he has criticized President Reagan's low-key human rights policy and the Administration's efforts to improve relations with Argentina's military dictatorship. Last month Timerman was a silent but nonetheless potent presence at Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Reagan...