Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comments, "So much for that. Now for our Irish wars." Announcing his confiscation of all Gaunt's property, rightfully belonging to Boling-broke, he toys with a dagger, whangs it into a chair, and can hardly wait to push off for Ireland. This acting is hair-raising in its impact...
...Impact of Technology. At least a few of the court's concerns during the next decade or so are visible, if only dimly. "The Warren court readjusted the balance between authority and the individual," says Columbia Professor Alan Westin. "I suspect in the next decade the Supreme Court will have to think in terms of the impact of large-scale technology on the individual, increasingly in terms of privacy." Westin, like many others, sees much of the court's recent activism as a result of inaction by the other two branches of Government. Says he: "When the nation...
...Administration's decision, Clifford underscored Sentinel's real value-as a deterrent to further Soviet moves in the ABM field. "If they [the Soviets] develop and deploy a workable ABM system and we do not," he declared, "we are at a disadvantage." His logic made an impact. By a 52-to-34 vote, the Senate defeated a move to eliminate funds for Sentinel from the defense budget...
...fair trial. It charged Fulton County Prosecutor Blaine Ramsey and his special assistant, Roger Hayes, with deliberately misrepresenting evidence by repeatedly waving a "bloodstained" pair of men's shorts before the jury. "In the context of the revolting crime," said Justice Potter Stewart, the underpants' "gruesomely emotional impact upon the jury was incalculable...
...full impact of this innovation is felt in the song 'Time and Again' when the drums and organ are kept tightly controlled in slow patterns; the resulting master tempo is unbelievably sticky and the song sounds as if its music were coagulating--an effect that fits in perfectly with the words...