Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large measure, the ICC failure reflects the broader impotence of the Geneva Conference itself. UN observation teams may not be able to force compliance, but the UN at least provides a standing forum which maximizes the impact of their reports and can react with powerful resolutions during crises. In the isolated cases when the ICC gets off a report, the Conference provides no such amplifier...
...challenging enough, but Miller has failed to give them enough dramatic substance, substituting instead a logjam of self-justifying tirades. The lives of Vic and Walter, and the price they paid for their choices, are merely described, not dramatized. By contrast, Willy Loman's fate had an anguishing impact because of the subtly manipulated flashbacks in Death of a Salesman, which brought key moments of his personal history to overpowering and believable life on the stage...
Knudsen's impact in Ford's fight in the auto market could be considerable. Despite such trend-setting firsts as the sporty Mustang and the intermediatesized Fairlane, Ford's share of domestic auto sales has slipped from 31% of U.S.-made cars in 1961 to no more than 28% since. Ford's latest strategy is to battle for the medium-priced market, which G.M. dominates with its Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles and Buicks. Obviously, Knudsen carries in his head much inside knowledge-from styling to engineering to marketing-of G.M.'s future plans. Nor can he erase...
...battle, as Federal Roads Commissioner Lowell K. Bridwell agreed to postpone the final decision on the Belt until the completion of a two-part review of the highway. The new study would determine whether a Belt is still needed, and also find ways to case the road's impact on Cambridge...
...second part of the review may be more fruitful for the City. During the 20 years rhetoric have been spent fighting "any and all Inner Belts." The City preferred not to study ways of minimizing the impact of a road; they regarded such efforts as an admission of the Belt's inevitability. Now, for the first time, an intensive effort may be made to help Cambridge come to terms with an Inner Belt...