Word: impacting
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Educators say that the Friday Commission's report has had a significant impact in putting education at the top of the candidates' agenda. They argue that the report has set the terms of the education debate this year, forcing the presidential candidates to come up with specifics instead of rhetoric, and putting conservative critics on the defensive...
...impact [of the report] is fairly subtle and can be measured [by] to what extent it informs the policymakers" for the Dukakis and Bush campaigns, says Robert Atwell, president of the American Council of Education. "I have no doubt that it [the Friday report] will have an impact on [Bush's] subsequent pronouncements...
...Harvard has an overall positive impact, but on a specific issue by issue basis we do better on some issues than others," says Harvard's Director of Planning Kathy A. Spiegelman. She acknowledges that the University "makes it hard for people to live and work here" by pushing up the local cost of living...
...crash's impact on undergraduates has been fairly minimal," Chernick says. But she adds, "I think-there was some nervousness in the fall...
...underscoring a new era of detente, the summit's impact was enormous--at least on the issues of arms control and superpower relations. In the last few years, Reagan has changed his tone, from bellicose hostility to pragmatic moderation. The mutual suspicion and lack of dialogue that characterized U.S.-Soviet relations during the early years of this administration have been replaced by a sober, though still wary, relationship...