Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...development controversy is symbolized by the fight over Parcel 1B. The planned multimillion-dollar complex will feature retail shopping, restaurants, a movie theater, offices and housing--enough of each so that some environmental impact reports estimate traffic flow in Harvard Square could double at times ("After a certain point," Sullivan notes, "traffic flow ceases to be a meaningful term...
...international impact of the ill-fated American venture was the most serious consequence of the operation. As thousands of joyful Iranians rushed again into Tehran's streets to gloat over America's discomfort, Iran edged ever closer to new economic and diplomatic collaboration with the Soviet Union, the menacing neighbor to the north that Khomeini had recently denounced. Handed an irresistible propaganda opening by Carter, the Soviet press made the most of it. TASS accused Carter of an "abortive provocation" that could have caused "mass bloodshed and the death of the hostages"?lives TASS claimed the U.S. President...
...delegates to 70. Said Sam Fishman, a political organizer for the United Auto Workers and a Kennedy backer: "If the rescue effort had been successful, Carter would have won by a fairly substantial margin. But it didn't work, and that had to have some negative impact...
...celebrate," said Earth Day 1980 National Coordinator Mike McCabe. "We've accomplished quite a lot." In the ten years since the first Earth Day participants pledged to "preserve, protect and clean up the planet," a remarkable body of legislation has been enacted, possibly comparable in its range and impact to the New Deal programs of the 1930s or the civil rights reforms of the 1950s and '60s. Some highlights from the "environmental decade...
...succinct commentary, Brownlow manages to illuminate the crucial aspects of his story, from the revolutionary impact of The Great Train Robbery in 1903, to Hollywood's World War I boom era, to the arrival of Will Hays' censorship. Most of the time the story is told, as it should be, through testimonies of survivors. Without resorting to the keyhole journalism of Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon, Brownlow removes the filters from some widely accepted views. Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle is presented as a guileless clown who became a national symbol of infamy before he could grasp what...