Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks ago, Assistant Professor of Economics Lawrence Lindsay, an adviser to Vice President George Bush and Robert Kuttner, a pro-Michael S. Dukakis columnist, debated the future economic course of this country at the Kennedy School. They talked a lot about the trade debt, the budget deficit and the impact of proposed programs on the rich and middle class...
...December and another early next year. Herrington, a lawyer and Reagan appointee, has taken commendable steps to infuse a safety- conscious attitude at the weapons facilities. But he has failed to heed complaints from environmentalists and Congressmen who believe the plant should remain closed until DOE files an environmental-impact statement on the 300- sq.-mi. facility. If he does not do so, the National Resources Defense Council, a New York-based environmental group, threatens to go to court to keep the plant from operating...
...says Steve Ritchie, a high school teacher in Idaho Falls, who is concerned about how the wastes piling up at the INEL site might affect nearby residents. "I don't think they're ever going to be honest." Boise State University Professor Michael Blain, who has studied the health impact of the Idaho repository on residents of Clark County near the site, contends that cancer deaths and breast malignancies there have run about twice the normal rate...
...both sides covered. The company's Republican chairman, Kenneth Lay, was co-host for the Bush event, while Democratic president John Seidl attended the Dukakis affair. The hedged positioning made sense: with a victory in November, either presidential candidate, along with the new Congress, could have a profound impact on the energy industry...
...Nancy Kuhn, a fund raiser for Dukakis in New York: "It's no mystery why the chairman of the finance committee can raise more money than the chairman of the judiciary committee." Even some members of Congress conceded, in a 1987 survey, that campaign contributions have had a negative impact on the legislative process...