Word: impactions
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...President Kennedy declared that he was "gratified" by the step, but added: "The enlargement of the European Community will necessarily result in some changes in the pattern of trade." By any standard, this was an understatement. If Britain does, in fact, negotiate its way into the Common Market, the impact on the $20 billion-a-year U.S. export trade will be profound. Among the likely consequences...
...market's new ebullience was crisis-inspired. As encouraging to investors as the impact of increased defense spending were second-quarter earnings reports that erased all doubts about the progress of the recovery. A study of 692 firms by New York's First National City Bank showed that their average second-quarter earnings, though off 2% from a year ago, were up 19% from 1961's first quarter...
...year-old. the older man is a hero, a near-mythical character pressed from the rarest mold. But in the ultimate test, he turns out to be only human, and quite ready to bow to a tough opportunist. To the boy. the blow of disillusionment is shattering-and the impact on the reader is just as powerful...
Moyer's secretary is Nancy Gore, the 23-year-old daughter of Sen. Albert Gore (D.-Tenn.), a co-sponsor of the bill. Her words are familiar even though she has a Southern accent, to regular readers of President Kennedy's prose. Yet they retained their impact. "Amricans respond in difficult times by doing the impossible. If Communism had never been born there would still be the basic problems in the world that the Peace Corps is trying to comba. There is a greater war going on, and if this doesn't help I don't know what will...
...Communist aggression that has no global limits. The military buildup he has begun is directed not so much at the possibility of war on German soil as at the reality of unspecified crises still to come. In this farseeing aim lies the significance of his speech. Beyond its impact on the Berlin question - and impact it will surely have - the nation's new mood and new strength should douse any future brush fires that Khrushchev chooses to light. For if the U.S. is prepared to deal with aggression militarily - and there can be no doubt now that...