Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Split-Second Specifics. Even the commission's conclusion collided head-on with the testimony of a primary witness to the shooting-Governor Connally himself. From the start, he insisted that he did not feel any impact until an instant after he heard a shot, presumably the one that struck Kennedy first, and thus could not have been wounded by the same bullet. The commission decided that he was mistaken; that he had experienced a delayed reaction to his wounds. The Governor said no more about it publicly until early this month, when LIFE prevailed upon him to review...
...main purpose of the questionnaire is to find out the impact the proposal would have on the size of various courses. By assembling these statistics, the HPC hopes to give College officials some idea of how much the plan would cost and how many courses would be significantly altered by the addition of new students. The Administration is said to be worried not only about expense, but also about the problem of finding space for large lecture courses...
While a President's impact on a midterm election is always hard to assess, Johnson could hardly absolve himself of blame for the Democrats' reverses. His performance the week before the elections was probably the least attractive of any during his three years in office. He trotted Defense Secretary Robert McNamara out to announce a pre-election draft cut that struck many a voter as a blatantly political move. He issued favorable economic figures to blunt the inflation issue (Pollster Lou Harris reported afterward that it had proved a particularly injurious factor for the Democrats nonetheless). He took a savage...
...bulk of its tobacco crop -the nation's biggest cash earner-because of the sanctions. Nevertheless, most farmers have got rid of enough to cover their production costs. In any case, the loss may be a boon, since it is forcing Rhodesians to diversify their crops. Whatever their impact, sanctions have served only to make the whites more adamant...
...defense supplemental is going to be, as many think, between $7 billion and $15 billion, we should take the calculated risk of a one-year tax increase rather than risk another step on the accelerator. It's easier to remove the tax increase than to untangle the impact of an inflationary situation...