Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...missile crisis, most people have felt that Soviet Communism, with its renewed stress on peaceful coexistence and the introduction of some capitalist-style economic reforms at home, was becoming less violent and more pragmatic. Indeed, such a development was taking place, though most Westerners optimistically overestimated the depth and impact of the new trend...
...included J.F.K.'s 1958 reelection, the presidential victory in 1960 and then Lyndon Johnson's landslide in 1964. As Hubert Humphrey knew when he persuaded the veteran tactician to serve as his campaign manager and as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, O'Brien's impact in any campaign is not merely talismanic. In the art of political organization, Larry O'Brien is a dry-land Nelson. In J.F.K.'s words, "he is the best election man in the business...
Although the gloom over the fall term is lifting, graduate deans are fearful of a slippage of students during the year as draft machinery catches up with them. Since boards can allow students to complete any semester they start, the real impact could be felt at first term's end. But unless manpower needs suddenly increase, grad schools may find themselves inconvenienced rather than crippled...
...unmanned lunar orbiters. Such flight deviations, which could drop a module several miles off target, were caused by local increases in lunar gravity brought about by areas of dense material beneath the five circular maria, or "seas." The concentrations of mass, called "mascons," may have been caused by the impact of large meteors, which generated enough heat to melt material below the surface of the moon and form regions of high density...
...French economy may well require more delicate manipulation in the months ahead. Unemployment is still rising, and some industries plan to lay off nonessential workers to help meet their added payroll costs. Thousands of small firms are expected to go out of business entirely when the full impact of the wage raises hits them in the fall. Despite exchange controls forbidding most Frenchmen from taking more than $200 a year out of the country, the flight of capital remains a drain on the franc...